{"id":154102,"date":"2026-06-08T19:29:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T03:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/06\/08\/outright-homophobia-ex-law-school-dean-sues-chapman-university-for-allegedly-firing-him-over-sexual-orientation\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T19:29:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T03:29:43","slug":"outright-homophobia-ex-law-school-dean-sues-chapman-university-for-allegedly-firing-him-over-sexual-orientation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/06\/08\/outright-homophobia-ex-law-school-dean-sues-chapman-university-for-allegedly-firing-him-over-sexual-orientation\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Outright Homophobia’? Ex-Law School Dean Sues Chapman University for Allegedly Firing Him Over Sexual Orientation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Paton, the former dean of the law school at Chapman University in Orange, California, has accused his ex-employer in a new lawsuit of allegedly firing him due to his sexual orientation and same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n

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Paul Paton, the former dean of the law school at Chapman University in Orange, California, has accused his ex-employer in a new lawsuit of allegedly firing him due to his sexual orientation and same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n

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Paul Paton, the former dean of the law school at Chapman University in Orange, California, has accused his ex-employer in a new lawsuit of allegedly firing him due to his sexual orientation and same-sex marriage. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Paul Paton, the former dean of the law school at Chapman University in Orange, California, has accused his ex-employer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":154099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/legal-news-u6WmdD.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}