The appeals court ruled that administrators violated Stuart Reges' First Amendment rights when they investigated and threatened to punish him for constitutionally protected speech.
"[I]n the public university setting, student disagreement with a professor's academic speech on an issue of public concern cannot alter the Pickering analysis in the government's favor."
Sarah McLaughlin reveals how foreign governments pressure American universities through speech codes and satellite campuses, and examines the broader threat international authoritarianism poses to free expression.
One claim is that CMU's Chief Diversity Officer illegally recorded meeting with student and the accused professor—and then apparently "asserted her Fifth Amendment rights when ... asked her if she did so or if she had a pattern or practice of recording student meetings, without their consent, in the scope of her duties."
"The [eventually released personnel] records contain no negative performance reviews, but they do contain three anonymous complaints. Those complaints accused Grossenbach of 'creat[ing] a hostile environment for transgender and LGBTQ students' in connection with his SaveCFSD activities [allegedly referring solely to Grossenbach's outside-class political activity -EV], among other things."
I coauthored the article with four other legal scholars from across the political spectrum.
Dr. Wolf von Laer and Sean Themea join Nick Gillespie to discuss how Kirk’s murder is reshaping student activism and where libertarian ideas fit in today’s campus climate.
The murder of an American activist tore apart Britain’s hallowed free speech club.
The discussion of campus free speech that almost did not happen at NYU.
That strategy, which rejects the possibility of sincere disagreement, is poisonous to rational debate.
Judge William Young wrote a book-length order attacking “the problem this President has with the First Amendment.”
The decision is the most thorough in a line of recent court decisions reaching similar results.
Writer Freddie deBoer discusses the assassination of Charlie Kirk and his theory of "spectacular acts of public violence" on the final episode of Just Asking Questions.
My two recent pieces in Chronicle of Higher Education
When universities are global institutions, the global speech environment matters.
Once a left-wing fetish, the heckler’s veto has gained conservative adherents.
Obviously drag shows are protected by the First Amendment.
The First Amendment protects everybody from the government, whether citizen or not.
Universities’ internal culture wars threaten free speech and inquiry, but political attacks on research funding and infrastructure are crippling U.S. scientific leadership.
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression is seeking an injunction that would protect noncitizens at The Stanford Daily from arrest and removal because of their published work.
The campus' settlement with the federal government is bound to create free speech headaches.
The government's gaslighting strategy suggests that federal officials are not confident about the constitutionality of punishing students for expressing anti-Israel views.
The government’s lawyers also say that supposedly nonexistent policy is perfectly consistent with the First Amendment.
The case settled while motions for summary judgment were pending; the plaintiff, Prof. Timothy Jackson, had prevailed against an earlier motion to dismiss, and the Fifth Circuit had also rejected defendants' appeal as to procedural matters.
The appeals court vacated a preliminary injunction that had been based on her First Amendment rights
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