Fake Indian Wins His Case, Gets a Dollar For His Troubles

Must have been some Little Eichmanns on the jury.

His reward and another six or seven dollars can buy him a pack of smokes, which hopefully inch him closer to a painful death.

Former University of Colorado Professor Ward Churchill won his case against the school, but was only awarded $1 in damages by the jury.

The jury announced it had reached a verdict just before 4 p.m. It was read around 4:20 p.m.

The jury ruled in Churchill's favor, deciding that when he was fired in 2007 it was because a majority of CU's Regents were responding to political pressure stemming from outrage over an essay he wrote after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

In the essay, he compared Sept. 11 victims inside the World Trade Center towers to an infamous Nazi.

CU had maintained the ethnic studies professor was dismissed for plagiarism and academic misconduct.

The jury also ruled Churchill would not have been fired over the plagiarism and academic misconduct allegations alone.

The jury began its deliberations on Wednesday after hearing the closing arguments from both sides. The jury paused that afternoon and reconvened Thursday to continue deliberating.

On Thursday afternoon, the jury asked several questions of the judge, one was whether zero dollars was an option for damages in the case.

Judge Larry Naves, in a written response, told the jury it was not, but indicated a single dollar could constitute a minimal damage award.

That is what they eventually awarded Churchill.

Don't spend it all in one place, asshole.

Believe it or not, the judge could order him reinstated, once again making CU a complete laughingstock, except to the delusional morons who hold this jerk up as some kind of icon.

H/T Gus.

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