After Gerber’s state lawsuit, the college filed a federal lawsuit against him.
After voicing his criticism of DEI, a liberal professor was immediately kicked out of Ohio Northern University’s campus. He has since settled with his employer.
The agreement, which was filed last week in an Ohio state court, brings an end to a multi-year legal fight between Scott Gerber and ONU, which also included a national counter-suit against the professor.
A judge recently approved a judge trial of the case.
Gerber’s previous position and university rank were restored, according to the university. According to the terms of the agreement, the teacher” may deliver his pension letter as soon as possible.”
The school claimed that Gerber not “admitted spiritual turpitude” or was a “public safety risk.”
Following an investigation into his conduct, Gerber was immediately “removed from his class by school safety officers,” The Fix recently reported in 2023.
According to a Wall Street Journal article, Gerber claimed that he would be instantly barred from training, banned from school, and told that ONU would start dismissal proceedings if I didn’t signal a separation agreement and release of claims by April 21.
As The Fix put it,” As at the moment, this is true:
Just a few times before being expelled from college, Gerber wrote an opinion piece in The Hill defending Clarence Thomas, a justice-seeker from the United States.
In the weeks leading up to his treatment, Gerber conducted a broadcast interview and published two op-eds in which he criticized La programs that “discriminate white men in the name of racial and social justice” and for being oblivious to the kind of diversity that higher education may meaning most: viewpoint diversity.
Gerber also agreed to abstain from publishing a memoir titled” Cancelled” as part of the agreement.
Ohio Northern agreed to drop a federal complaint it had brought against the teacher after constitutional authorities had criticized it.
According to experts, the petition was intended to stop Gerber from growing.
According to the now-defunct federal lawsuit, Gerber was accused of having “ulterior purposes,” including “practicing personal vendettas against Plaintiffs and/or launching political vengeance against Plaintiffs.”
The Fix has contacted The University numerous times for opinion regarding the lawsuit in the past fortnight.
The school’s federal lawsuit was criticized by The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, which has been supporting Gerber’s event. Attorney Zach Greenberg told The Fix via internet prior to the settlement statement that” ONU’s complaint rests on Gerber’s protected speech and is a classic example of abusing the legal structure to silence your detractors.”
” It is not a valid claim and is undoubtedly punitive for Gerber’s victory against ONU in state court,” he said.
In a related article, Greenberg described the federal complaint as a” typical example of using the legal structure to silence your detractors.”
Legal analyst John Banzhaf also criticized the lawsuit, claiming that it appeared to have been written by a layman and not an lawyer. The praying, in my opinion, is at best unusual.
The federal lawsuit appears to be a collateral ( indirect ) attack on the state lawsuit, according to the George Washington University professor.
Additionally, he continued,” there seems no reason to make a split national case out of what is essentially a state moving, which is why such a money direct attack is highly disfavored.”
So, he said,” The provincial judge is likely to reject the federal lawsuit, allowing the state court judge to control what is essentially a state problem.”
Further: Check out the Campus Cancel Culture Database.
IMAGE CAPTION AND CREDIT: Professor Scott Gerber interviews Laurence Jarvik/YouTube in an exam.
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