Free speech or doxing? All eyes on Wisconsin campus court case

MILWAUKEE, Wis. — Had John McAdams not identified a graduate student by name in a blog posting four years ago, Marquette University president Michael Lovell said the school would not be heading to the Wisconsin state Supreme Court to argue that McAdams, a professor, should stay fired.

The case, scheduled for Thursday, centers on whether the Milwaukee Jesuit university was within its rights to fire a tenured political science professor for something he wrote on his personal blog — a post that resulted in insults toward a graduate student instructor at the center of his blog post.