The judge says he is busy with LSU Law Professor ‘has a full right’ for legal action – WAFB

Baton Rouge, La. (WAFB) – District Court Judge Tavald Smith denied LSU’s request for courts to defend themselves in the case of LSU Ken Levy’s law professor.

And he authorized the evidentiary hearing in the case to continue.

This hearing began on Monday afternoon.

LSU removed the left -wing left room last month after conflicting comments he made during a class lecture.

Allowing the hearing, Smith said it was not premature to intervene and eventually use a retraining order to force LSU to return a tax in the classroom. The judge stated that Levy “has the right, in the opinion of this court, to bring this action.”

Lawyer Jimmy Fairlot, representing LSU, told Judge Smith that the issue is a continued “question of employment” and the professor’s request for a temporary restraining order from the court is premature.

“This is a case that comes out in front of it,” Fairlot said. He said he was moving to Levy to “drag” the courts in this “It shouldn’t have happened and shouldn’t happen.” He said Levy is a professor who “knows no boundaries.”

The 19th Judicial District Judge Don Johnson early issued a temporary restraining order in the case, but later this order was overturned by the first Court of Appeal.

During the lecture in question, Levi is heard that he says he is a burglary of curses and makes a naught commentary on both Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry and President Donald Trump.

LSU says a student has complained about the content of the lecture, which causes the university to remove a tax from the classroom until an investigation can be conducted.

He is on administrative leave with full fee and benefits, as the internal university investigation continues.

Levi is represented by prominent lawyer Jill Kraft, who often defends people on employment.

During the Monday hearing, Craft said that the removal of the client from the classroom had already caused him professional harm and he had to be returned to the classroom to “stop bleeding”.

“It doesn’t matter if he is still paying, he has suffered debauchery and that’s why we’re here,” Kraft said.

An emotional tax testifies from the podium that its removal from the classroom has devastated it. “My job teaching means everything to me,” he said.

Levi said that LSU Law Dean Alena Alan had previously encouraged him and other law teachers to “continue to speak their minds” and not deviate from the hot topics.

He said that being disciplined about something he said in a lecture was the last thing he thought would happen.

“It’s not what I thought was LSU,” Levy told the court, “It’s not what I thought was America.”

As part of this case, craftsmanship calls copies of any text messages or emails about left, sent between Louisiana Governor Jeff Landri and any LSU, including LSU supervisory bodies.

The governor’s office objected and asked for the summons to be tilted.

However, Judge Smith ordered them to be produced. The governor’s attorneys then handed over two pages of “relevant” evidence.

The content of the governor’s texts or emails has not yet been read in an open vessel.

LSU President William Tate is among the few eight witnesses who are expected to be called to testify in the evidentiary hearing when it continues on Tuesday.

The hearing is intended to resume at 10 am Tuesday.

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