The First Circuit Court of Appeal upheld the suspensionhttps://www.wafb.com/2025/02/04/first-circuit-sides-with-lsu-law-professor-case/ of LSU law professor Ken Levy earlier this week, which righted a pair of dumb rulings from district court judges in Baton Rouge who somehow thought it was a violation of Levy’s freedom of speech that he’d be disciplined for demanding his students listen to his political rants and threatening them with legal prosecution for recording his lectures.

The Louisiana First Circuit Court of Appeal sided with LSU Tuesday, agreeing that the university does not have to immediately return embattled LSU law professor Ken Levy to the classroom at this time.

The court said an evidentiary hearing must be held before deciding whether a temporary restraining order (TRO) previously issued by District Court Judge Don Johnson should be enforced. That hearing is scheduled for February 10, 2025.

Johnson issued the TRO last week, ordering LSU to return Levy to the classroom immediately. He was set to return to his class Tuesday afternoon.

In previous court filings, LSU said it is investigating Levy following “student complaints about inappropriate, vulgar, and potentially harassing conduct in the classroom.”

LSU administrators removed Levy from the classroom last week after hearing a recording of a law class lecture he gave on the first day of the Spring 2025 semester.

During the lecture, Levy is heard saying a slew of curse words and making unflattering comments about both Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry and President Donald Trump.

The new court filings said Levy is on administrative leave with full pay and benefits and the university investigates the allegations.

Attorney Jill Craft said earlier this week that the filings by LSU are interesting in that, she claims, they “keep adding more items to the reasons they are not allowing Mr. Levy to teach.”

”It appears that LSU is trying to come up with more and additional reasons as to why they have taken this unconstitutional action against Professor Levy, which underscores how illegitimate it was in the first place and utterly lacking in due process,” Craft said Friday afternoon.

Yeah, maybe it’s that. Or maybe, now that he’s suspended you might have more students coming forward to note their experiences with him and the full scope of what LSU’s law students are paying for is becoming known.

We’ve said that the Louisiana legislature ought to do away with tenure altogether and put these professors on a series of multi-year contracts like universities do with their coaches. That’s a far better system; it might actually lead to more compensation for university faculty, but it also would be a major assist in quality control.

This thing got even more amusing yesterday…

That’s, er…less than consistent with the argument Levy is making now that his job is the one on the line.

It’s not that this is a big story. It isn’t. It’s a data point, though. We’re living in a different era where politics and culture are concerned than we were just a few months ago. And while it’s most obvious this is true looking at things nationally, this is one example of how it’s happening here.

The abusive leftists in Louisiana’s academia are going to get called out and perhaps turned out. And our universities are going to stop turning into woke indoctrination centers. Because the state’s political leadership isn’t woke, and it’s starting to get serious about making that count.

So this is noteworthy, if for no other reason than what it represents.

And to recognize that Levy – or perhaps his attorney Jill Craft as well – doesn’t seem to have all that great a grip on the law for somebody that LSU gave tenure to.