This
is
what
I
get
for
assuming
that
we’d
be
done
with
this
by
now.
After
a
court
just
ordered
LSU
to
reinstate
law
professor
Ken
Levy
citing
his
free
speech
and
due
process
rights,
LSU
continued
its
strategy
of
appealing
decisions
that
aren’t
in
its
favor.
Because
why
fix
what
ain’t
broken?
The
Advocate
has
coverage:
A
state
appeals
court
has
halted
a
lower
court’s
ruling
requiring
LSU
to
return
a
tenured
law
professor
to
his
teaching
duties
after
the
university
suspended
him
from
the
classroom
in
January.The
order
from
the
Louisiana
1st
Circuit
Court
of
Appeal came
Thursday,
just
two
days
after
state
district
Judge
Tarvald
Smith
late
Tuesday
night
signed
off
on
a
preliminary
injunction
barring
LSU
from interfering
with
Professor
Ken
Levy’s
employment.
So
much
for
that
lengthy
hypo
I
wrote
up
yesterday.
Speaking
of
hypos
—
for
some
reason
Ken
Levy’s
2022
exam
questions
got
thrown
in
to
the
fray.
Jeff
Landry,
Louisiana’s
current
governor,
described
Levy’s
hypos
from
the
exam
as
“deranged”
and
“disgusting”.
No
shit
—
Levy
taught
a
Crim
law
course.
Did
you
expect
his
questions
to
revolve
around
fireworks,
trains,
and
jurisdictional
issues?
I
was
willing
to
cut
Landry
some
slack;
its
not
like
Louisiana
requires
governors
to
have
a
legal
training.
Thing
is,
Landry
does.
He
got
his
JD
from
Loyola
University
New
Orleans
College
of
Law
over
twenty
years
ago
and
the
memory
gets
fuzzy,
but
no
attorney
should
make
it
seem
to
the
non-practicing
public
that
Levy’s
exam
questions
were
out
of
the
ordinary.
Sure,
one
of
Levy’s
hypo
questions
involved
a
Republican
who
was
a
suspected
pedophile
who
recorded
children
dancing
naked,
but
hypos
often
imitate
life!
Maybe
Levy
was
inspired
by
Ben
Gibson,
a
Louisiana
republican
that
ran
against
Mike
Johnson.
He
was
arrested
and
charged
with
four
counts
of
pornography
involving
juveniles
in
2020.
It
isn’t
that
much
of
a
stretch
to
guess
Levy
changed
a
couple
of
names
and
factual
elements
to
make
the
hypo.
Without
knowing
the
4-D
chess
moves
LSU’s
legal
team
is
making
behind
the
scenes,
all
of
this
back
and
forth
just
looks
like
a
waste
of
money.
Legal
fees
aside
—
and
that’s
a
big
aside
—
Prof.
Levy
is
still
getting
his
check
whether
or
not
he’s
in
the
classroom.
LSU
Law
Professor
Again
Barred
From
Classroom
After
Appeals
Court
Sides
With
University
[The
Advocate]
Earlier:
Law
Professor
Ordered
Back
In
Classroom
(Again)
Chris
Williams
became
a
social
media
manager
and
assistant
editor
for
Above
the
Law
in
June
2021.
Prior
to
joining
the
staff,
he
moonlighted
as
a
minor
Memelord™
in
the
Facebook
group Law
School
Memes
for
Edgy
T14s.
He
endured
Missouri
long
enough
to
graduate
from
Washington
University
in
St.
Louis
School
of
Law.
He
is
a
former
boatbuilder
who
is
learning
how
to
swim, a
published
author
on
critical
race
theory,
philosophy,
and
humor,
and
has
a
love
for
cycling
that
occasionally
annoys
his
peers.
You
can
reach
him
by
email
at [email protected] and
by
tweet
at @WritesForRent.