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Judge strips immunity from Ohio State officials for firing professor who 'triggered' student

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Major decisions on campus free speech from the Supreme Court and an influential federal appeals court in recent years have apparently not reached public universities under their jurisdiction, given their treatment of faculty and a Christian apologist.

U.S. District Judge Michael Watson slapped down Ohio State University for allegedly violating its own lofty ideals by terminating a lecturer for his pedagogy in a "Crucial Conversations" class that he taught 48 times with no complaints from students, until one complained in the 49th.

The President George W. Bush nominee refused to dismiss Mark Sullivan's First Amendment retaliation lawsuit over his contract not being renewed following the human resources investigation into his classroom exercise on "simulating difficult conversations" that involve "intentionally triggering, provocative, disrespectful, or shocking language."

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