The lawsuit was filed by Adams against the University of North Carolina, Wilmington – his employer – on the grounds of denying him a promotion to full professor and subjecting him to harassment.

An article from last year from the North Carolina Family Policy Council, gives a review of the issues, including some surprising news regarding organizations usually considered to be liberal who have sided with Mike Adams in this case.

Text of the report follows;

Special Report

A conservative professor involved in an ongoing lawsuit against the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW) has won the support of three key organizations.

The American Association of University Professors (AAUP), the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), and the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression filed a joint friend-of-the-court brief in the case on July 2 in support of an appeal by Dr. Mike Adams, an associate professor of criminology at UNCW who is suing the university for denying him a promotion to full professor and subjecting him to “harassment by his superiors because of his religious beliefs and conservative viewpoint.”

As we have previously reported, Dr. Adams is being represented in the lawsuit by the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), which has filed an appeal of a lower court decision with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

Back in March 2010, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Southern Division ruled in a summary judgment order that Dr. Adams’ nationally syndicated opinion columns are not protected by the First Amendment because he referred to them in a promotion application. In its appeal of this summary judgment, ADF argues that Dr. Adams’ opinion columns constitute protected free speech.

Read More: http://www.ncfpc.org/stories/100707s1.html

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