To quote that article:
While many of the claims are more difficult to prove, this claim is factual. Either Lamparello has letter or email from the college saying that he’s fired/terminated/etc, or the college has a letter or email from Lamparello saying that he’s quitting. The College made this claim publicly, and Lamparello has publicly claimed that he was terminated. So one of them will be shown to be lying, and I expect that will determine the outcome of Lamparello’s lawsuit.
It’s interesting because Lamparello is well versed in the law, and I cannot believe that he would claim something on a lawsuit that is provably false, but I also cannot believe that a College spokesperson would be so dumb as to have an easily provable lie on an official statement.
Lamparello has an advantage, since he doesn’t really need to show any official message from the College, just proof that his employment was ended, while the College needs some sort of proof that Lamparello said that he was quitting.
That $75,000 also seems to be a small amount, considering the fact that Lamparello can claim that his career as an academic was destroyed.