A FREE SPEECH VICTORY FOR PROFESSOR SCOTT GERBER: VICTORY — America First Legal Secures Settlement, Reinstatement, and Vindication for Law Professor Fired by Ohio Northern University for Objecting to Race-Based Hiring.

In 2023, ONU terminated Dr. Gerber, a tenured law professor, after he objected to the University’s race-based hiring practices. When he was terminated, ONU sent campus security and armed local police officers into his classroom to forcibly remove him.

Now, after nearly two years of litigation, ONU has agreed to reinstate Dr. Gerber and allow him to retire at his rightful faculty rank, with all his benefits intact. As part of the settlement, ONU formally acknowledged that:

Dr. Gerber was never a public safety risk to any member of the ONU community.
He never acted with moral turpitude.
He provided “outstanding teaching, scholarship, and service” throughout his tenure at ONU.

“Dr. Gerber should be commended for his courage in filing complaints about what he perceived as ONU’s consideration of race and sex in hiring professors, which is illegal. This has cost him years of lost teaching opportunity, reputational harm, and the stress of years of litigation. However, his reward is full vindication. He was never a safety threat. He was nothing but an outstanding professor and scholar who stood on truth,” said Nick Barry, Senior Counsel at America First Legal.

The right now has a legal infrastructure of the sort that the left always had. More, please. Make them pay.