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Wisconsin Supreme Court to Hear Marquette Professor’s Free-Speech Case

April 18, 2018

Wisconsin’s Supreme Court on Thursday will hear oral arguments in a suit that questions how far the principles of academic freedom at private colleges extend into the rough and tumble world of internet trolling.  The case centers on whether Marquette University in Milwaukee had the right to discipline tenured political-science professor John McAdams for something he wrote online that resulted in threats against another instructor.

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