The University moved to dismiss the state suspension case.

The Attorney General moved to be heard on my challenge to the constitutionality of Senate Joint Resolution 55.

The court declined to halt the investigation for now. It required the University to notify the court when the investigator’s report is complete and to give me ten days’ notice before taking any disciplinary action. It also asked the University to reconsider banning me from the law school, noting that the record contains no evidence…

The University asked the state court to decline to hear my claims on the ground that my federal case was filed first.

The University left the Fayette court’s order transferring the case to Franklin Circuit Court unentered for a month. With the investigation resuming, and with the automatic stay on issuance of the Sixth Circuit’s mandate leaving me no way to seek a return to teaching in federal court for the fall semester, I refiled the same…

Federal courts cannot hear state-law claims against state officials, so I sued in state court as well, challenging my suspension, my ban from the law building, and the investigation of my petition. I bring claims for breach of my employment contract and for violations of the Kentucky Campus Free Speech Protection Act and the Kentucky…