I think so too. Either he got a nice severance package --ala Steve Jobs' "you're fired" firing random engineers and HR picking up the pieces and cutting nice checks to the no reason fires, or he's got a decent chance at a nice verdict from a wrongful termination suit due to the free speech implications, even if this is a private company. You still can't willy nilly fire someone and not expect a suit, specially in such a high profile case.