Robert Lynn Cook v. Maher K. Tadros

LAY, Circuit Judge.

Robert Cook is a tenured Associate Professor of Engineering in the College of Engineering and Technology, in the Department of Construction Systems Technology (CST), at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, Nebraska (UNL). He has been employed at the' University since 1986. Maher Tadros became the interim chair of the CST department in January 1999 and as such was Cook’s immediate supervisor. The precipitating event of this litigation related to a meeting of CST students and alumnae regarding the CST educational program and the department’s reputation in the academia and…