April 2, 1999

Texas Colleges Can't Bar Professors' Testimony

By COURTNEY LEATHERMAN

A federal judge has barred Texas universities from enforcing a state law designed to prevent professors from testifying as experts in suits against the state.

The ruling expands on a decision that the judge issued in 1997, and that a federal appeals court upheld in July, in a case against Texas A&M University.

Judge James R. Nowlin, of the Western District of Texas, did not issue a written ruling. But according to the

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