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The Kentucky Law dean fight has reached the stage where somebody sues. Back in April, the whole mess was already a dumpster fire as a “substantial majority of the faculty” told those running the dean search that Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove was an unacceptable candidate, lacking the academic bona fides required by the school’s own rules. The university hired him anyway, and then spent a news cycle explaining that a federal judge’s opinions are a kind of scholarship because Sixth Circuit reviews are sort of like peer review.
It was… not convincing.
Yesterday, Professor Ramsi Woodcock filed suit in the Eastern District of Kentucky to stop the appointment. That is, of course, the court that Judge Van Tatenhove departs to take the Kentucky deanship. After swift recusals from the rest of the district bench, the case has been temporarily assigned to Jeffrey Sutton — the Chief Judge of the Sixth Circuit — for reassignment.
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