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Eugene Volokh

Law School Recommended Against Student's Bar Admission, Partly for Alleged "Celebration" of Charlie Kirk Assassination in Law School Clinic

From Judge Brantley Starr (N.D. Tex.) May 12 in Fisher v. Campbell:

This case stems from a Texas Tech University law student allegedly making a celebratory statement {in the clinic program offices} after Charlie Kirk's assassination while she was working at a legal clinic at the school. The school … reprimanded her and reported her to the state bar for acting unprofessionally, in violation of the school's honor code [on the grounds that she had] {"fail[ed] to uphold professional or fiduciary obligations including, but not limited to, performance related to clinical programs"}.

The alleged celebratory statements were said to be:

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