The lawsuit of a University of Wyoming dean who was demoted after refusing to channel money into a portion of the school he believed was not legally entitled to it survived a court hearing Tuesday, while UW asked a judge to throw it out.

UW called the lawsuit invalid in part because the plaintiff and former dean Cameron Wright did not vet his complaint with the university’s human resources department or with an audit department before filing his lawsuit.

Wright did make other attempts to inform UW leadership and reconcile the issue, his attorney Mary Elizabeth Galvan countered.

The Controversy

Wright was demoted this spring from his deanship at UW's College of Engineering and Physical Sciences following a vote of the UW Board of Trustees.

UW said it demoted Wright because he lacke

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