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The federal lawsuit against SFSU hit the news this morning, with articles in the and (subscription required).
One quick but important clarification of those articles: ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵAPP¹ÙÍø is not representing the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, but rather worked to coordinate the lawsuit that was filed yesterday by the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF). This is the modus operandi of ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵAPP¹ÙÍø’s Speech Codes Litigation Project: ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵAPP¹ÙÍø coordinates litigation—filed by cooperating attorneys from ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵAPP¹ÙÍø’s Legal Network—in defense of the First Amendment, in an effort to end the scourge of unconstitutional speech codes on public campuses. In this case, ADF filed the lawsuit and represents the plaintiffs.
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