Federal Jury Orders U. of Colorado to Pay $600,000 to a Former Professor

A federal jury in Denver has awarded $600,000 to a former University of Colorado psychiatry professor who said that he had been "illegally fired" by the chancellor of the university's Health Sciences Center.

The professor, Gordon L. Neligh, served as a faculty member at the center's medical school and as director of its public psychiatry programs from 1987 to 1998, when the university did not renew his annual contract.

The university may appeal the verdict. "We are considering

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