Pundit-Professor Takes Ideological-Bias Claim to Appeals Court

The prominent conservative political pundit Michael S. Adams is appealing a U.S. District Court’s ruling that the University of North Carolina at Wilmington did not discriminate against him based on his political views and religious beliefs in denying him a promotion in his other job, as a faculty member teaching criminology. In a statement announcing the appeal, lawyers with the Alliance Defense Fund, which is representing Mr. Adams, argue that the district-court judge erred in holding that Mr. Adams’s opinion columns were not protected under the First Amendment because he made reference to them in a promotion application. The American Association of University Professors is likely to file a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of Mr. Adams, the group’s senior counsel, Rachel Levinson, told The Washington Times.