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Professor sues Mississippi auditor in 'scholar strike' spat

by Emily Wagster Pettus
| December 30, 2020 4:15 PM

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A tenured professor at the University of Mississippi filed a lawsuit Wednesday saying that state auditor defamed him by saying the professor should be fired for participating in a two-day “scholar strike."

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