the issue. Kevin Jacobs, former OC president, is one of the lawyers representing Michael O'Keefe in his suit against OC. This follows a similar case involving a similar school, Florida College; filed by Roy Byers in 2016 over his firing as a tenured professor. After 5 years of ongoing litigation in that case, Florida College invoked the ecclesiastical abstention doctrine. That case was shortly thereafter dismissed without the Court having reached the merits of issue.
== Cascade College ==
OC operated Cascade College, a branch campus in Portland, Oregon, from 1994 until it closed in May 2009. Like OC, Cascade's full-time faculty and the majority of its students were members of Churches of Christ. In 1992, the Oklahoma Christian University Board of Trustees assumed the operation of the former Columbia Christian College after it suffered serious financial difficulties and lost accreditation. A year after Columbia closed, the new branch campus opened in 1994 as Cascade College. The North Central Association …
