BOULDER, Colo.—A University of Colorado attorney has urged a judge to reject fired professor Ward Churchill’s latest move to get his job back.
Churchill in July asked Denver District Judge Larry Naves to reconsider his ruling against reinstating him as a professor at CU-Boulder. He noted that a jury decided the CU regents wrongly fired him for plagiarism.
But university attorney Patrick O’Rourke said in a recent filing that Churchill’s motion simply repackaged the same arguments Naves previously rejected.
Churchill was fired in 2007 after a furor over his essay likening some victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to a Nazi mastermind. CU officials concluded the essay was constitutionally protected expression, but fired Churchill after concluding he was guilty of plagiarism in other work.
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Information from: Daily Camera,
