Judge won’t reinstate Michigan prof who made vulgar video
BIG RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A judge declined Monday to reinstate a Michigan professor who was suspended with pay in January for making a profanity-filled video to welcome students to a new term.
Barry Mehler said his free speech rights were violated when he was barred from teaching history at Ferris State University while the school investigates his actions.
But U.S. District Judge Jane Beckering turned down a request for a preliminary injunction, according to the online case file.
Mehler has said his 14-minute video was simply a performance to get his students’ “juices flowing.” He used profanities and made a sexual reference as he rambled on about his attendance policy, grades, plagiarism and COVID-19.
Mehler has a “well-known and celebrated provocative style,” attorney Matthew Hoffer said in a court filing.
But Ferris State said the video couldn’t be ignored.
“A college professor has no right to call his students and administrators sexually harassing, discriminatory or profane terms to excite them about his class. It is simply wrong!” said Robert Vercruysse, an attorney for the school.
Candidates seek openings on Bar Association Board
Ten candidates are seeking five openings on the board of directors for the Oakland County Bar Association in its upcoming election.
“The Nominating Committee has finalized the slate of candidates for the 2022 OCBA board of directors election,” said a spokesperson for the OCBA. “There are five board seats to be filled in this election – all three-year terms.
The candidates include: Joseph A. Doerr of the Doerr Law Firm; Jennifer J. Henderson of the Oakland County Road Commission; Michael P. Herzoff of Weltman Weinberg & Reis; incumbent Victoria B. King of Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani; incumbent Julie Lyons Kosovec of Brooks Wilkins Sharkey & Turco; incumbent Jennifer L. Lord of Pitt McGehee Palmer Bonanni & Rivers; James W. Low of The Dollar Law Firm; Jonathan M. Martone of Clark Hill; Kenneth F. Neuman of Altior Law; and Layne A. Sakwa of Fried Saperstein Sakwa.
All eligible voters will receive an e-mail from the OCBA office the morning of April 29 that will have the link to the online ballot and instructions for logging on. The link to the ballot will be live from April 29 to May 10 at 5 p.m.
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