Churchill’s lawyer wants appeal heard in Denver

Rocky Mountain News: Churchill’s lawyer wants appeal heard in Denver

Ward Churchill’s attorney is seeking a more sympathetic jury by taking the case of the fired University of Colorado professor to Denver District Court rather than to a federal judge.

Federal judges tend to defer to the personnel decisions of university governing boards, especially if the boards followed due process as set forth in their own operating procedures, legal experts say. But a local jury is less predictable.

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