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Court Denies Qualified Immunity to U. Central Florida Administrators On First Amendment Claims of Prof. Charles Negy

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 05, 2024 29 Comments

Negy counsel: "This decision is an important first step towards holding UCF administrators accountable for their cruel acts of retaliation against Dr. Negy."...

“Charles Negy, in many ways, is the poster child for what goes wrong when DEI takes over a campus”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 20, 2023 21 Comments

My interview on Fox News Digital: "This is really one of the worst examples I've seen where a university, to placate the mob and also because they don't like his opinions, really used the entire machinery of a major public university and taxpayer funding to...

Prof. Charles Negy, Investigated and Fired After Tweets Disputing Systemic Racism, Files Federal Lawsuit Against U. Central Florida

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 16, 2023 29 Comments

Negy, who was reinstated after an arbitrator ruled in his favor, alleges constitutional and tort claims for harm Negy suffered "for nearly two years at the hands of UCF administrators who, because they disliked his political views, treated him as less than human." ...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 03, 2022 1 Comment

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U. Central Florida Prof. Charles Negy, Fired After Tweeting “Black Privilege is Real,” Ordered Reinstated With Tenure and Back Pay

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 18, 2022 47 Comments

Arbitrator finds no "just cause" for termination. Negy: "UCF Administrators (and all university administrators) need to get the message that they cannot simply 'purge' or even discipline professors who do not conform to the DEI ideology that they are imposing on entire university campuses."...

U. Central Florida “Discriminatory-Harassment Policy Likely Violates The First Amendment” Rules Federal Appeals Court

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 21, 2022 15 Comments

"it is an overbroad and content- and view-point-based regulation of constitutionally protected expression"...

If We Don’t Tell Their Stories, Who Will? – 2021 Legal Insurrection Year-End Fundraiser

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 29, 2021 0 Comments

As we approach year-end, I just sent out my third year-end letter to readers and supporters who subscribe to our newsletter. It's quite different from my prior two letters - I don't do all the talking, I let 'canceled' people whose stories we covered tell their story about Legal Insurrection. Here it is:

Student Lawsuit: U. Central Florida Treatment of Prof. Charles Negy Chilled Campus Free Speech

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 17, 2021 15 Comments

The University of Central Florida has been in the news for its punitive actions against Professor Charles Negy after he tweeted opinions that went contrary to campus and social justice politics. We have covered the Negy case extensively:

U. Central Florida Fires Dissident Prof. Charles Negy After 8-Month Retaliatory Investigation

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 30, 2021 41 Comments

Defenders of academic freedom and freedom of speech throughout academia should be rallying to the defense of University of Central Florida Professor Charles Negy after egregious retaliation against him for expressing constitutionally protected views on Twitter.

Prof. Charles Negy: Investigative Report is “UCF’s attempt to justify getting rid of me because I have become a political liability”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 20, 2021 38 Comments

We previously reported on the targeting of University of Central Florida Professor Charles Negy over his tweets in early June 2020 questioning claims of ‘systemic racism’ and asserting ‘black privilege is real.’ That targeting by students, alumni, and other activists, was joined by the UCF administration, including newly-installed President Alexander Cartwright, who participated in the protests against Prof. Negy.

Legal Insurrection and Judicial Watch investigate attacks on UCF Prof. Charles Negy

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 16, 2020 44 Comments

Charles Negy is the University of Central Florida professor who found himself in the crosshairs of online and street mobs demanding his termination after early June 2020 tweets disputing the concept of "systemic racism" and asserting that "black privilege is real."

The administrative torment of UCF Prof. Charles Negy

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 16, 2020 54 Comments

I had heard of Charles Negy, Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Central Florida (UCF). What I heard seemed like a particularly egregious example of cancel culture that is purging academia and imposing uniformity of opinion, particularly with regard to the Black Lives Matter movement. Having looked into it more, it's worse than I realized.

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