Cleveland State University did not violate the First Amendment rights of a professor who it fired after he published academic work exploring race and intelligence, a court ruled recently.
A three-judge panel of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the 2022 firing of Professor Bryan Pesta in a decision issued on Nov. 4.
Pesta contends the school fired him because he said genetics played at least some role in the intelligence gaps between black and white people, as The College Fix previously reported. The school said it fired him after he was sanctioned by the National Institutes of Health for uploading data to an unapproved server in the Netherlands. This server had another data set that Pesta sought to use to supplement his research.