I asked the Sixth Circuit to speed return of the case to the District Court to allow the District Court enough time to return me to teaching this semester.

The Sixth Circuit reversed the District Court’s decision to abstain from hearing the case and remanded to the District Court to decide my motion to return to teaching during the pendency of the litigation.

Here is a recording of oral argument in the case, which was held on July 28, 2026 (source).

Brandeis Center is one of the principal architects of the Palestine exception to free speech on campus. Its founder and CEO once declared that losing antisemitism cases is still a win for him because “[t]hese cases – even when rejected – expose administrators to bad publicity.” Here is my response opposing Brandeis Center’s filing of a “friend of court” brief in this case.

Here is my reply, which points out that the University and the Kentucky Attorney General didn’t respond to one of my arguments and didn’t meaningfully argue two others. They primarily contested matters relating to application of the First Amendment—making arguments that, if accepted, would all but eliminate faculty freedom of speech.