Conservative Professor Scores Multimillion-Dollar Win After Yearslong Battle with California College
An outspoken conservative professor is getting the last word against the community college that fired him — and it’s worth millions.
In 2021, Matthew Garrette, then a tenured history professor at Bakersfield College in California’s Kern Community College District, sued the district claiming in federal court that it had violated his First Amendment rights for retaliating against him for his opposition to campus racial diversity policies, according to Fox News.
In an agreement announced in July, the district agreed to pay Garrett $2.4 million to settle the case.
The dispute flared up in 2019, when Garrett delivered a speech on campus defending free speech, according to a College Fix report in 2020.
