Last summer, Fernando Bustos convinced the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals that his professor client has a viable federal free speech case against Texas Tech University officials after they allegedly retaliated against him for speaking out against the tenure system.

But the Lubbock lawyer wasn’t finished protecting James Wetherbe’s right to sue over two issues that be believes should go hand in hand on American college professors — the First Amendment and academic freedom.

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