
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, November 15, 1994                   TAG: 9411150113
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                  LENGTH: Medium

COURT REVIVES COLLEGE OUSTER

The Supreme Court has revived a New York college's effort to oust as chairman of its black-studies department a professor accused of making an anti-Semitic speech.

The court set aside rulings Monday that City College of New York had violated Leonard Jeffries' free-speech rights by removing him as chairman.

The justices ordered the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to restudy Jeffries' case in light of their decision in May that gave public employers greater freedom to fire employees for the things they say.

In other matters Monday, the high court:

Agreed to decide in a Texas case whether people must pay income taxes on back pay and damages they receive by suing their employers over alleged age bias.

Ruled, by a 5-4 vote, that injured workers and, by extension, passengers can sue a subsidiary railroad of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in federal court.

The court said the authority is vulnerable to such lawsuits because the two states that created it are not required to pay its debts.

Said it will decide whether courts may second-guess the U.S. attorney general's decision to shield some federal workers from being sued over injuries they allegedly caused.

Turned away the appeal of a German woman who says she's the rightful owner of a Claude Monet oil painting that apparently was stolen from a castle during World War II.

Jeffries' dispute with the college dates from a 1991 speech he gave at a black cultural festival, in which he accused Jews of financing the slave trade and said Jews and the Mafia conspired to belittle blacks in the movies.

by CNB