November 19, 1999

Professor Wins Lawsuit in Free-Speech Case

By DENISE K. MAGNER

A federal judge has ruled in favor of a tenured professor who said his First Amendment rights were violated when the South Orange County Community College District ordered him to seek anger-management counseling and to tone down the language in two newsletters he publishes.

Last month, U.S. District Court Judge Gary Allen Feess granted a summary judgment in favor of Roy Bauer, a professor of philosophy at Irvine Valley College, one of two campuses in the

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