This blog has the relevant excerpt from the testimony by William Eskridge, Jr. (Yale); it also contains a link to the full testimony (the relevant portion is on pp. 85 ff.). It does read a bit as "settling a score," but knowing nothing of the underlying merits, it may well be a score that deserves to be settled. I wonder whether the University of Virginia Law School will issue a formal response.
Yale’s Eskridge Tells Congress He Was Denied Tenure at Virginia Because of Sexual Orientation Discrimination
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Spit, “faggot,” and a tenure denial
Yale law professor Bill Eskridge testifies before Congress on the pending Employment and Non-Discrimination Act of 2009, which would “bar sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination in the workplace by states as well as by private employers,”…
Everything you say is true, but what is the alternative? I don’t think people are advocating a return to in-class…