UVA Officials Beat Expelled Medical Student’s Free-Speech Appeal

A former University of Virginia medical student on Monday lost his bid to revive a lawsuit alleging he was wrongly disciplined for questions he posed about the concept of “microaggressions” during a faculty presentation.

Evidence showed that university officials acted because of the student’s “confrontational, threatening, behavior,” not based on the substance of his speech, a divided US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit said Monday. Without a link between the content of the student’s speech during the October 2018 event and the series of alleged adverse acts that followed, a reasonable jury couldn’t find the officials violated his ...