A civil case brought about by a Florida Atlantic University professor who is trying to get his job back will continue.
James Tracy testified in federal court in West Palm Beach on Friday, and jurors were shown how Tracy responded to a letter published in the Sun Sentinel by parents of a victim of the Sandy Hook school shooting in Connecticut.
Tracy penned a retort, disputing the couple’s claims that he compounded their pain by declaring the mass shooting a hoax.
“The Pozners, alas, are as phony as the drill itself and profiting handsomely from the fake death of their son,” Tracy wrote in a December 2015 response to the letter by Leonard and Veronique Pozner, whose 6-year-old son was among the 26 killed in the Newtown, Conn. shooting.
Attorneys for the university say the public position Tracy took on the controversial subject isn't what got him fired, but rather the fact that he violated school policy by not disclosing his outside activities.
Tracy is suing to get his job back.