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On January 17, 2014, Colorado State University-Pueblo Professor Tim McGettigan emailed all students and faculty, criticizing the administration’s plans to terminate up to 50 positions at the school. McGettigan’s email evoked the Ludlow Massacre, a 1914 attack on striking miners and their families that resulted in numerous deaths. That same day, administrators accused McGettigan of violating a policy that prohibits using email “to intimidate, threaten, or harass other individuals,” and deactivated his email account without warning. CSU-Pueblo defended its actions by citing safety concerns, referring to shootings that occurred at other schools. On January 21, ��ݮ��ƵAPP���� wrote to President Lesley Di Mare, explaining that McGettigan’s email was protected speech and did not come close to constituting legally unprotected threats, intimidation, or harassment. After ��ݮ��ƵAPP����’s letter, CSU-Pueblo restored partial access to McGettigan’s email, but continued to prevent him from using university mass email lists. On January 15, 2015, McGettigan filed a lawsuit against CSU-Pueblo, stating that the university violated its policies when it denied him access to his email account. McGettigan and the university settled the lawsuit in 2017.