(USA) - The University of Michigan Law School is fighting a breach-of-contract lawsuit filed by a professor who says he was denied tenure because he is openly Gay. "I am the only male ever denied tenure by a vote of the law school faculty in at least 40 years," said Peter Hammer, who moved to Wayne State University in Detroit, where he is a tenured law professor. At a hearing today, University of Michigan lawyers are asking a Lansing circuit court judge for the third time to throw out Hammer's suit, which has dragged on for almost three years and cost more than $200,000 in legal fees. The fight comes after the school in Ann Arbor successfully defended its affirmative action program before the U.S. Supreme Court in 2003.
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