A hearing that was scheduled for Friday has been canceled in the case of a Kansas University lecturer who’s suing the school over releasing his emails.

The next hearing date had not yet been set in the case of Art Hall v. KU, as of Thursday afternoon.

Hall is founding executive director of the Center for Applied Economics, a public policy think-tank within KU’s School of Business. Previously he was chief economist for the Public Sector Group of Koch Industries Inc.

A student group seeking information on Koch’s ties to KU requested Hall’s correspondence — among other records — last fall. KU said it was poised to give Hall’s emails to Students for a Sustainable Future when Hall filed a lawsuit in Douglas County District Court and the court temporarily blocked their release.

Hall argues the Kansas Open Records Act does not apply to his correspondence, while KU and the students, in separate court filings, argue that it does.