A federal judge in Newark, New Jersey, has dismissed a First Amendment retaliation suit by a university lecturer whose contract was not renewed after the New York Times reported that he was part of the alt-right movement.

While an institution such as the defendant New Jersey Institute of Technology is intended to function as a marketplace of ideas, plaintiff Jason Jorjani’s firing was warranted because of the disruption to the administration and faculty and the harm to the school’s educational environment when his ideology was made public, the court said.