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Related: About this forumA former professor files free speech lawsuit against Collin College over tweets about Mike Pence
A year ago, Texas history professor Lora Burnett fired off an angry tweet from her private social media account about then-vice president Mike Pence. It landed during the vice presidential debate, prompting news coverage from conservative media, an angry response from at least one Texas lawmaker and a series of disciplinary actions from her employer, the publicly funded Collin College in North Texas.
This week, Burnett, who was eventually terminated from her job at Collin College, a community college in McKinney, filed a federal lawsuit against the college, its president, H. Neil Matkin, and the board of trustees.
In the Tuesday filing, she claims that the schools decision not to renew her three-year contract was retaliation for those comments, as well as her public criticism of the schools COVID-19 reopening plan, and violated her First Amendment rights.
In her lawsuit, Burnett argues that Collin College leaders use a custom or practice of terminating professors who speak out on matters of public concern and that the school's practices are unconstitutional.
Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2021/10/28/collin-college-lawsuit/
Doodley
(9,088 posts)lark
(23,091 posts)If death threats were included, she's probably a goner as she should be.
drmeow
(5,017 posts)and have no death threats in them