Law professors agree: University of Oregon can’t legally punish prof for Halloween costume
Greg Piper - Associate Editor •December 27, 2016
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Anything can qualify as ‘hostile’ under UO’s reasoning
The University of Oregon is running headlong into decades of legal precedent that says public institutions can’t punish employees for their perceived offensive speech.
Law professors around the country are frowning upon the university’s finding that one of their peers, School of Law Prof. Nancy Shurtz, committed “discriminatory harassment” by dressing as a black male scientist at her Halloween party, to which she had invited her students.
Shurtz and her attorney are looking into “legal options” following the university’s release of its investigative report, which she said violated her employee privacy rights, according to a statement given to the media last week:
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