Judge Gets Reassigned After Vowing to ‘Crush’ Litigant’s Lawyers

A psychology professor will see her sex discrimination and retaliation lawsuits against two Texas universities revived after the Fifth Circuit said the trial judge’s inappropriate behavior indicated he prejudged her claims.

Among the inappropriate actions were a statement to Audrey Miller’s lawyers that he would “crush” them.

Miller, an assistant professor of psychology at Sam Houston State University, was removed from a faculty committee after disagreements with her colleagues. Miller alleges the disagreements were retaliation caused by her sex and complaints she raised about her clinical workload. Miller was also denied tenure, purportedly because of her lack of collegiality, and ...