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Louisiana State Professor

The Fifth Circuit upheld the firing of a tenured Louisiana State professor, as her use of profanity and comments about professors' and students' sex lives did not serve an academic purpose, thus was not protected speech.

NEW ORLEANS — The Fifth Circuit upheld the firing of a tenured Louisiana State professor, as her use of profanity and comments about professors' and students' sex lives did not serve an academic purpose, thus was not protected speech.

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