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- Student group files suit against Arkansas State for limiting speech to 1% of campus
Multiple groups ask US Supreme Court to take case to rein in immunity for lawbreaking govt officials
WASHINGTON – Multiple groups have filed friend-of-the-court briefs encouraging the U.S. Supreme Court to take an Arkansas State University student’s case against university officials. Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing the student, Ashlyn Hoggard, are seeking reversal of a lower court ruling that allowed university officials to escape consequences for their violation of her free speech rights under the First Amendment. Although the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit ruled that ASU officials violated Hoggard’s constitutionally protected freedoms, it said that the officials ...- The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Chris Schandevel regarding the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit’s decision Monday in Turning Point USA at Arkansas State University v. Rhodes, which found that Arkansas State acted unconstitutionally when it stopped a student, Ashlyn Hoggard, from setting up a promotional table outside of the student union to recruit students for a new chapter of Turning Point USA: “Speech isn’t free when students have to ask permission before they can speak anywhere on campus. As the 8th Circuit rightly found, Arkansas ...
- ADF lawsuit prompted state to enact campus free speech law resulting in policy changes at ASU, but court left no consequences for officials who acted unconstitutionally
- ADF attorneys represent Turning Point USA chapter organizers in challenge to policy that restricts expression to 1% of campus
- ADF attorneys represent Turning Point USA chapter organizers