Analyzing Common Problems with University Policies
Over at The Torch, FIRE’s Samantha Harris has been writing an excellent series on various threats to liberty on public universities campuses. Much like our series a few years ago on equal access and...
View ArticleDeJohn Case Cited Once Again As Important Speech Code Precedent
Last month, the California Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights issued a report on Equal Educational Opportunity and Free Speech on Public College and University Campuses...
View ArticleGood Tidings for Speech on Campus
Santa came early this year for students at some public universities. FIRE released its annual survey of free speech on campus this week and reports that for the fifth year in a row, unconstitutional...
View ArticleAlliance Defending Freedom’s Top University Victories of 2012
We have a lot to be thankful for this year at Alliance Defending Freedom as our clients prevailed time and again in cases across the country. Here’s a recap of the top university victories in 2012:...
View ArticleGallaudet University Reinstates Administrator Who Signed Petition to Put...
Last October, Angela McCaskill, chief diversity officer at Gallaudet University, the nation’s premier university for the deaf, was placed on administrative leave for signing a Maryland petition to...
View ArticleAtheists Wage War Against West Point
I’ve never been in the military. But I’ve known a few good men and women who have served our country. And I know that when they are putting their life on the line, the comforting prayer or counsel...
View ArticleBad Grades on Trial
We get a number of calls from students asking if we can do anything to help change a bad grade. Generally speaking, getting a lawyer will not improve your chances of changing that “D” into a “C,”...
View ArticleStudent Fees Gone Wild
Last fall, I wrote about Non-Discrimination Gone Wild, a decision by Evergreen State College to allow a man to use the girls locker room. Well it seems my law school alma mater, Washington University...
View ArticleEMU Tells Pro-Life Students Their Speech Is Too Biased
I can hardly believe it, but it has been nearly 20 years since the Supreme Court handed down the landmark decision in Rosenberger v. Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia and said that...
View ArticleUniversity at Buffalo Suppresses Pro-Life Speech
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing UB Students for Life filed a federal lawsuit last week against the University at Buffalo for charging the group security fees in order to exercise its...
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