April 12, 2002
High Court Declines Free-Speech Case
The U.S. Supreme Court last week let stand a 2001 ruling that allowed an adjunct faculty member at a community college to sue administrators over his free-speech rights. Kenneth E. Hardy had taken Jefferson Community College, in Kentucky, to court when it failed to renew his contract because he had used offensive words in a classroom discussion.
The college declined to extend Mr. Hardy's contract in 1998, after he used slurs against women, black people, gay people, and other groups in
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