A University of Illinois Chicago School of Law professor convinced the Seventh Circuit to revive part of his suit against the school for allegedly suspending him over referencing a racial epithet in an exam question.
The lower court erred by tossing Jason Kilborn’s retaliation claim without properly weighing the professor’s constitutional protections from adverse action for classroom speech, the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit said Wednesday.
The US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois granted school leaders’ motion to dismiss Kilborn’s claims in 2023.
Kilborn said in his lawsuit that he was wrongly deprived of ...
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