In 2018, Meriwether filed a lawsuit against Shawnee State University, which the school tried to get thrown out. More on the case ⬇️ - Alliance Defending Freedom April 19, 2022 Meriwether took a stand for his First Amendment rights and secured a victory for every American’s right to speak in accordance with their beliefs. The university determined that Meriwether created a "hostile environment" for the unnamed student, eventually placing a written warning in his personnel file and threatening "further corrective actions," according to ADF.ĭr. The student, who was not named, filed a complaint against Meriwether that sparked a formal investigation with the university.Īccording to ADF, the university ruled that Meriwether should use the student's correct pronouns - which Meriwether argued spoke "contrary to his religious convictions and philosophical beliefs." Meriwether did not agree with the student's request, as court documents indicate that the student became "belligerent" and promised that the professor would get fired.
In a January 2018 philosophy class, Meriwether responded to the student by using the phrase "Yes, sir." Once the class ended, the student asked Meriwether to use she/her pronouns when addressing her, but Meriwether refused to do so, according to ADF. Nick Meriwether, a philosophy professor at Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, Ohio, sued the college in 2018 after he was disciplined for not using she/her pronouns to refer to a transgender woman, according to a news release from Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a legal organization focusing on religious freedom and free speech cases. A public university professor in Ohio who was disciplined four years ago for refusing to use a transgender student's pronouns is being awarded $400,000 following a lawsuit against the university.
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