This could only happen in America. A teacher accused of plagiarism, fraud, and shoddy scholarship was fighting to get his old job back.Ward Churchill is a fake. This has been established beyond any reasonable doubt. As it turns out, his termination was considered by one jury to be retaliation for his "little Eichmann" crack, thus a violation of his right to free speech, but the regents who fired him have absolute immunity to do as they wish according to the appeals court judge: The Court of Appeals held that Churchill would have had to establish that his First Amendment rights had been violated when the university decided to investigate him."Whether an investigation alone is sufficient to constitute an adverse employment action has not been resolved by the United States Supreme Court, and there does not appear to be a definitive consensus on the matter among federal courts," the ruling states.The opinion stressed that Churchill continued to be paid and held his...(Read Full Post)