A Texas Tech University professor is asking a Texas district court judge to temporarily reopen his case, as he’s facing the prospect of a second cancer diagnosis during his over four years-long wait for a federal appeals court ruling.
Lawyers this week asked Senior US District Judge Terry Means of the Northern District of Texas’s Lubbock division to let the professor, James Wetherbe, sit for a deposition. Wetherbe, 76, in 2015 sued former Rawls College of Business dean Lance Nail for retaliation over the professor’s public comments against tenure. The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in September ...
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