Penn Carey Law Professor Unable to Block Speech Sanctions (1)

A University of Pennsylvania law professor isn’t entitled to a preliminary injunction to block disciplinary sanctions imposed against her by the school, a federal court said.

Amy Wax failed to show that allowing the sanctions to begin will cause her irreparable harm, Judge Timothy J. Savage said Monday for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Penn imposed sanctions on the tenured Carey Law professor after internal disciplinary proceedings determined she violated the school’s speech policy. The university claimed several comments Wax made in public and the classroom were widely viewed as racist, sexist, and xenophobic, drawing ...