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 From the College Fix, U. Oregon to pay $191,000 after blocking conservative professor on Twitter

The University of Oregon will pay out $191,000 in legal fees to two legal groups representing a professor who it blocked on Twitter (now X) for saying “all men are created equal.”

The attorney fees will go to Portland State University Professor Bruce Gilley’s representatives at Angus Lee Law Firm and the Institute for Free Speech.

The school already spent more than half a million dollars paying its own attorneys and now its insurer will pay out even more.

U. Oregon will also revise its social media guidelines and provide training to its employees to end the two-and-a half year lawsuit, as previously reported by The College Fix.

Gilley, a professor of political science at Portland State University, in 2022 sued the former communications manager of the @UOEquity X account after she blocked him for responding to her “racism interrupter” prompt with the quote “all men are created equal.”

That was controversial 249 years ago.