The Supreme Court denied cert in Ward Churchill's case against the University of Colorado in a decision announced April 1, 2013. This lets stand the Colorado courts' ruling that the Regents have absolute immunity from suit, even when they deliberately violate the First Amendment — or any other provision of the U.S. Constitution.
So much for academic freedom. For a thorough report from the Colorado Conference of AAUP chapters on the bogus nature of the claims made by the University against Ward Churchill, click here (Churchill section is at pp.116-251).
