Lawyers for a professor who believes he was wrongly denied a job at the University of Illinois, argued in a legal filing that the school already had a contract with him when it denied him the job.
Attorneys for Steven Salaita also argue that the university violated his right to free speech. The legal filing was a response to the university's request to dismiss Salaita's lawsuit against the university. A spokeswoman said university officials were still reviewing the legal filing.
Salaita accepted an offer to teach at the Urbana-Champaign campus starting in August 2014. But the offer was rescinded just before he was due to begin work because of sometimes-profane, anti-Israel Twitter messages he sent last summer.
