Nolan Richardson Trial Starts Wednesday
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Former University of Arkansas basketball
coach Nolan Richardson`s lawsuit against the school and its
fund-raising foundation gets underway this week.
Richardson says his firing in 2002 came because he is black and
outspoken.
Richardson wants U.S. District Judge William R. Wilson Junior to
declare that the university punished him for exercising his freedom
of speech and subjected him to racial discrimination -- including
retaliation for imposing limitations on future employment.
The university denies the allegations and says Richardson was
terminated after he publicly asked to be relieved of his duties and
for his contract to be paid off.
The case is to begin in federal court in Little Rock on
Wednesday.
