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</a>DENVER - Former University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill's
request for reinstatement has been denied in Denver District Court. Front
pay has also been deemed inappropriate in the case. <br><br>
CU fired the controversial ethnic studies professor in 2007 after an
exhaustive faculty review found instances of academic misconduct on
Churchill's part. <br><br>
Immediately following his 2007 dismissal, Churchill and his attorney
David Lane filed a lawsuit in Denver District Court. In that lawsuit,
Churchill argued he was illegally fired in retaliation for an essay he
penned in 2001 in which he compared victims inside the World Trade Center
to an infamous Nazi. <br><br>
That essay was thrust into the national spotlight in 2005, years after it
was written. The political firestorm that erupted had politicians such as
then-Governor Bill Owens demanding action. Churchill believed the
intense, outside political pressure corrupted the academic environment in
such as way it blinded CU's leadership. <br><br>
In 2005, CU began a process that started looking into allegations of
academic misconduct and fraud. In 2007, the CU Board of Regents voted 8-1
for dismissal. <br><br>
In April, a Denver jury agreed with Churchill's premise that he was
illegally fired, but it stopped far short of awarding Churchill a high
dollar figure. Instead it awarded Churchill $1. <br><br>
Last week, Lane and Churchill were back in Judge Naves' courtroom arguing
that their legal victory in April was enough for the judge to order
reinstatement. Calling CU leaders, "constitutional law
violators," Lane told Naves he had essentially no other choice but
to reinstate the embattled professor. <br><br>
CU's lead attorney Patrick O'Rourke argued that the $1 judgement in April
should, in essence, speak for itself. O'Rourke suggested that reinstating
Churchill would further damage the university's reputation. <br><br>
The Chancellor of the CU-Boulder campus is expected to talk about this
latest development at 1:45 p.m. <br><br>
<b><a href="http://www.9news.com/pdfs/06CV11473.pdf">To read the full
text of the judge's ruling, click here.</a><br>
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