Professor claims blog post led to firing; school differs
A dispute between a conservative professor and the university that fired him is going before the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which will hear arguments this week on whether the firing was the result of a provocative blog post or his conduct.
Former Marquette University professor John Mcadams sued the private Catholic school in 2016, arguing that he lost his job for exercising his freedom of speech by expressing his disapproval of what he believes was a teacher’s attempt to shut down a discussion about opposition to gay marriage.
However, the school has always said that it was not what the professor wrote that led to his firing, but rather his “doxing” of a graduate student instructor in a blog post. Doxing is the practice of publicizing someone’s personal identifying information online to subject them to harassment.