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Jurisprudence

Closing arguments in Jim Huffman’s wrongful termination trial will be heard Monday morning in Orange County Superior Court in Santa Ana, after which the jury will begin deliberating.

Huffman, the former Cal State Fullerton volleyball coach who is seeking $1.2 million in damages against the school, was the final witness to testify in the two-week-old trial Thursday.

He claims he was fired on March 23, 1992, in retaliation for speaking out against the school’s poor gender equity record and initiating successful legal proceedings, which resulted in negative publicity to administrators and the school.

University administrators, who deny retaliation was a motive in Huffman’s termination, claim Huffman was fired because of substandard performance, and that the decision was made in the fall of 1991.