A University of Tennessee professor placed on administrative leave for remarks about Charlie Kirk’s assassination lost her bid to pause her suspension.
Tamar Shirinian’s motion for a temporary restraining order failed because she didn’t show that university chancellor Donde Plowman and other defendants likely violated her First Amendment rights when Plowman placed her on administrative leave, said Judge Katherine A. Crytzer of the US District Court to the Eastern District of Tennessee.
On Sept. 12, two days after Kirk was killed, Shirinian—off work at the time—wrote a comment on a private Facebook post stating, among other things, that “the world ...
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