Posted on 04/11/2014 12:17:03 PM PDT by Academiadotorg
While Americans fume about the sidelining of Mozilla’s Brendan Eich, another conservative is getting some long-awaited payback. It took eight years, but Dr. Mike Adams, associate professor at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, finally won the promotion he deserved — thanks to a federal court’s intervention. Almost a month earlier, a jury had sided with Dr. Adams, agreeing that the university was retaliating against the criminology professor for his conservative views.
This week, a U.S. District judge followed up on that verdict, ordering UNCW to promote Adams and provide $50,000 in back pay in what many are calling a “landmark anti-discrimination case.” Eight years ago, the university’s sociology department turned down Adams’s application for promotion, despite a folio of awards, student recommendations, 125 speaking appearances, and 11 published peer-review articles. It was the first time, his attorneys at Alliance Defending Freedom pointed out, that a professor with that many peer-reviewed pieces had ever been denied promotion at the Department level.
Unfortunately, Dr. Adams fell victim to UNCW’s radical political agenda after converting from atheism to Christianity in 2000. Since then, the administration’s open hostility to Adams’s work in conservative circles was impossible to ignore. Thank goodness Professor Adams had the last word. “The jury last month found that disagreeing with an accomplished professor’s religious and political views is no grounds for denying him a promotion,” said ADF’s Travis Barham. “To our knowledge, this is the first court to rule that a university unlawfully retaliated against a conservative professor for his views, award him back pay, and order the university to promote him to the position he was wrongfully denied.”
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You can buy a lot of ammo with $50k. LOL!!! Love it.
The real zinger is still to come. This has been seven years in litigation, and now the judge has to determine who pays the lawyer fees and court costs. And this could amount to a lot more than a mere $50k.
Believe it when it happens.
Unfortunately it will not break or deter them if the bass turds have to pay.
But it is nice to see a little justice instead of just us.
“and now the judge has to determine who pays the lawyer fees and court costs. And this could amount to a lot more than a mere $50k.”
I hope it’s a bundle! And too bad it won’t come out of the University’s President’s pocket. But maybe if it’s a lot of money, it will get the taxpayers attention.
Too much to hope that the guys on the Tenure Committee pay the bill. And presumably the Dean who seconded their refusal. But it wouldn’t break my heart if they charge it to UNCW.
Since the award is lost wages, he will be responsible for income taxes and withholding on the amount. No punitives for the vindictive behavior of the university?
Mike Adams victory celebration ping!
Simply raise the tuition! Better yet, take from tenured a$$hole fund.
One down and thousands of conservatives to go. Congratulations to the new judge.
Mike Adams victory celebration ping!
Thanks for the ping.
“Better yet, take from tenured a$$hole fund.”
I like the way you think!!
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