Butler v. Emory University

ORDER

TIMOTHY C. BATTEN, SR., District Judge.

H. Erik Butler was an untenured professor in Emory University’s Department of German Studies. He claims that Emory unlawfully denied him tenure on the basis of his religion and his national origin, and in retaliation for prior complaints about discrimination.1

At Emory, tenure decisions are made with explicit consideration of, among other things, a professor’s collegiality. And that is something that some of Butler’s departmental colleagues thought he lacked. Over the course of several years, they painted the following picture of him: he made…