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- Judge calls University of Houston a designated public forum for student speech
- HOUSTON – The Alliance Defense Fund Law Center, a national public interest law firm, last week filed for a second preliminary injunction to prevent the University of Houston from enforcing another unconstitutionally restrictive speech policy. The first injunction came on June 24, 2002, when U.S. District Judge Ewing Werlein, Jr., ruled against the university in favor of a student group called the Pro-Life Cougars. In the fall of 2001, the University of Houston denied the Pro-Life Cougars permission to put up a display in a public space used by other organizations. But the group won the first ...
- ADF official comment
- Court says university did not violate Christian students’ First Amendment rights; case goes to 9th Circuit
- Four Christian student groups pressured to accept members and leaders that do not share their beliefs
- ADF attorneys file lawsuit against school district for denying Christian student club equal treatment
- The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defense Fund Senior Counsel David Cortman regarding today’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court not to review the case Alpha Delta Chi v. Reed, involving a Christian sorority and fraternity at San Diego State University told they must be willing to accept atheists as leaders: “Public universities should encourage, not censor, the free exchange of ideas. But for now, the supposed marketplace of ideas at San Diego State University will remain a stronghold for censorship. We wish the Supreme Court would have used this opportunity to make clear that ...
- ADF attorneys file suit against university officials after independent newspaper targeted for discrimination
- Settlement results in policy changes that will end disruption of pro-life events
- The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Legal Counsel David Hacker regarding the U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous decision Thursday in Lane v. Franks, which affirmed that the First Amendment protects the speech of public employees outside the workplace on matters of public concern: “No one should be fired or suffer other kinds of retaliation for speech outside the workplace, especially when that person is testifying truthfully in court, as Mr. Lane was. We see all too often that public universities and colleges place political litmus tests on employees. But as ...