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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
Kate McGee

Jury rules against Texas professor who claimed suburban community college retaliated against him for political speech


A jury has rejected a former Collin College professor’s claim that the North Texas school violated his First Amendment rights by not renewing his contract after it expired at the end of the 2022 school year.

History professor Michael Phillips claimed in a lawsuit filed last year that school leaders retaliated against him for speaking out against the McKinney community college's COVID-19 policies and his support to remove Confederate statues in Dallas.

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