Court denies conservative pundit-professor’s bias claim against university

The Chronicle of Higher Education: “A federal court has rejected a claim that the University of North Carolina at Wilmington committed viewpoint discrimination against Michael S. Adams, a prominent conservative commentator and associate professor of criminology, by denying him a promotion based partly on its review of online columns and other expressions of opinion that he included in his application to move up the ranks . . . ‘We disagree with the court’s assessment that Dr. Adams’s speech is somehow not protected by the Constitution,’ Jordan Lorence, a senior counsel for the alliance, said in the statement. ‘Opinion columns are classic examples of free speech protected by the First Amendment, and mentioning them in a promotion application does not change this fact.’”