Ohio university pays out $400,000 to Christian professor 'for violating his First Amendment Rights' [View all]

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Source: Daily Mail

Shawnee State University has agreed to pay $400,000 to professor Nick Meriwether, who sued the school after it punished him for refusing to use a student's preferred pronouns in 2018.

Meriwether, a devout Christian and a professor of philosophy who has taught at Shawnee State for 25-years, sued the school for violating his First Amendment rights.

Shawnee State and Meriwether reached the settlement on Friday after a unanimous ruling by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in March 2021 found that the school had violated Meriwether's right to free speech and free exercise of religion.

Controversy began on the first day of Shawnee's second semester in January 2018, when Merewether responded to a student's question by saying 'Yes, sir.'


Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10728699/Shawnee-State-agrees-pay-400k-professor-refused-use-trans-students-preferred-pronouns.html

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