pronoun sanity in Ohio
“Shawnee State University will pay a professor $400,000 in damages and attorney’s fees to settle a lawsuit over not using a student’s preferred pronoun.
In 2018, Shawnee State philosophy professor Nicholas Meriwether called a transgender student “sir” during a lecture when she raised her hand, which sparked an investigation by school officials who found that Meriwether had created a “hostile environment.”"
“But Meriwether contends that the university’s action violated his First Amendment right to free of speech and free exercise of religion and sued in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio in Columbus. On March 26, the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati overturned the district court and ruled Meriwether can sue the university for an alleged violation of his constitutional rights.”
““Since Meriwether has plausibly alleged that Shawnee State violated his First Amendment rights by compelling his speech or silence and casting a pall of orthodoxy over the classroom, his free-speech claim may proceed,” the appeals court’s 32-page opinion states.”
“PALL OF ORTHODOXY”: THE INSIDIOUS PERSISTENCE OF LOYALTY OATHS
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