Professor Who Touted Hitler Argues for Free Speech at Third Cir.

A fired New Jersey Institute of Technology professor defended his positive comments about Adolf Hitler and Aryan intellectual superiority as protected by First Amendment, in a bid to revive his wrongful discharge lawsuit.

The oral argument before Judges Cheryl Ann Krause, Paul B. Matey, and Peter J. Phipps probed the free-speech rights of academics and the ability of universities to discipline employees for speech that disrupts the educational environment and school administration or that might do so in the future.

The university says a lower court properly dismissed Jason Jorjani’s First Amendment retaliation claim based on emails from ...