The Colorado Supreme Court has upheld the firing of a university professor who wrote an essay comparing the victims of the 9/11 World Trade Center terror to Nazi Adolf Eichmann.

The court on Sept. 10, one day before the 11th anniversary of the terrorist attacks, ruled for the regents of the University of Colorado against free-speech and retaliation claims brought by Ward Churchill, a former tenured professor of ethnic studies.

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