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- 7th Circuit orders SIU to reinstate CLS chapter's registered status
- ADF and CLS file motion for preliminary injunction on behalf of CLS chapter
- CLS and ADF attorneys file suit for derecognition of CLS chapter
- School distributes student fees unfairly, discriminated against CLS chapter
- ADF, Liberty Legal, and allied attorneys representing student prevail against school’s highly restrictive speech policies
- MADISON, WI— This past Friday was a day to remember for Captain Scott Southworth, a unit commander in the Wisconsin National Guard 32nd Military Police Company. Southworth’s unit returned on Friday from more than a year of rigorous duty in Iraq and the United States Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit handed down the latest opinion in Southworth v. Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. Captain Southworth, then a student at the University of Wisconsin, was the plaintiff in the lawsuit when it was filed in 1996. The lawsuit challenged the unfair nature of mandatory student ...
- HOUSTON – A University of Houston student group, the Pro-Life Cougars, announced a victorious settlement today in a free speech lawsuit against the university. The settlement is a big win for the student organization, but it could prove to be an even bigger victory for student groups seeking to regain free speech rights on other campuses. The case involved a graphic pro-life exhibit banned from display on Butler Plaza at the University of Houston. Benjamin Bull, chief counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund and the lead attorney in Pro-Life Cougars v. University of Houston, explained that the ...
- Judge calls University of Houston a designated public forum for student speech
- ADF official comment
- 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 ...