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Israeli party leaders were holding discussions with President Isaac Herzog on Thursday about who should get the first chance to form a governing coalition. [TheTopNews] Read More.5 hours ago - Lawprof’s First Amendment Case Against Univ. of Kentucky, and a Case’...
From Judge Benjamin Beaton Tuesday (W.D. Ky.) in Woodcock v. Capilouto (E.D. Ky.): Ramsi Woodcock, a tenured University of Kentucky law professor, has been under investigation for more than a year for controversial comments regarding Israel and Palestine. The alleged comments varied in both content and forum: an online petition calling for the invasion of Israel, listserv blasts to the University faculty and broader legal academy accusing Israel of genocide, the interjection of far-afield remarks about colonization at an antitrust panel in Hong Kong, shouts of "Free Palestine!" while driving two law students near campus, and more. None of the remarks came in the classroom and none appears to have disrupted school activities. Yet all related in some manner to his role as a state-employed professor—rendering all the more curious the University's July 2025 decisions to promote him to full professor one week and call him in for questioning (literally) the next. {Curiouser still, Woodcock maintains that the remarks in question dated as far back as February 2024 and were known (at least in part) to the University since March 2024.} The following week brought a public denunciation from the University's President, the start of a formal investigation into potential harassment under Title VI, reassignment from teaching duties to "professional development," and a (since rescinded) ban from campus. {This first of two "Notice[s] of Investigation" laid out four allegations that Woodcock "may have violated" the University's code of conduct and other policies. The notice declared (without elaboration) that the "investigation … is consistent with the First Amendment" and "addresses requirements under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act." A second notice, based on reports from four students, identified four additional allegations that may have "created a hostile environment on the basis of race, color, or national origin."} Rather than participate in the investigation, however, Woodcock filed this [federal] lawsuit …. The pleadings characterize his treatment by leaders of the University and its law school as retaliation for protected academic or personal speech, violations of the Due Process and Establishment Clauses, and racial and religious discrimination…. The issue ripe for resolution today is Woodcock's request for temporary emergency relief halting the investigation and reinstating his teaching duties. This is Woodcock's second or third such request, depending on how one counts. And it follows a journey so circuitous it would make a Baggins blush. The judge previously assigned to this case… [TheTopNews] Read More.5 hours ago - Love Island VIP star is convicted of raping contestant he was paired with on Ger...
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