Professor Fails in Suit Over Firing for ‘Racial IQ Gap’ Article

Cleveland State University officials didn’t violate the First Amendment rights of a tenured professor the school fired after he published a controversial article that concluded that there’s an IQ gap between the races, a federal court said.

The record showed that Bryan J. Pesta was fired because of ethical lapses and for violating the school’s academic and integrity standards while researching his article, not in retaliation for his speech, Judge Dan Aaron Polster said Monday for the US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, granting summary judgment to the school officials.

After the controversial article was published in ...