Ward Churchill won a civil wrongful termination suit against his former employer, the University of Colorado, Thursday. The court awarded him one dollar in damages.

His next move is to file a motion with the judge in the case to get his job back, IN Denver Times reported.

Churchill had filed the suit claiming a statement he made in an essay comparing 9/11 victims to Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was the reason he was fired from CU.

"While we respect the jury's decision, we strongly disagree," CU President Bruce Benson said in a news release after the verdict. "It doesn't change the fact that more than 20 of Ward Churchill's faculty peers on three separate panels unanimously found he engaged in deliberate and repeated plagiarism, falsification and fabrication that fell below the minimum standards of professional conduct."

Churchill was terminated in 2007 after a long review process by several CU committees. He then sued the university, claiming he was fired because of his controversial essay, which he said violated his First Amendment rights, IN Denver Times reported.

The university maintains he was fired because they found evidence of multiple instances of plagiarism, falsification and fabrication in his scholarly work.

"The jury's award is an indication of what they thought of the value of Ward Churchill's claim," Benson said in the statement.