LEGAL EDUCATION UPDATE: Jury Splits in Conservative Faculty Candidate’s Hiring Bias Suit Against Iowa Law School. “A federal jury rejected Teresa Wagner’s First Amendment claim that the University of Iowa College of Law denied her a faculty position due to her conservative politics, but deadlocked over her Equal Protection claim that she was passed over in favor of less qualified candidates. The U.S. Magistrate Judge declared a mistrial on the 14th Amendment claim.” As is typical with such things, though, what came out in discovery was devastating.