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SFSU: Another Speech Code Falls

As we announced in our press release today, a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction prohibiting San Francisco State University (SFSU) and the California State University (CSU) System as a whole from enforcing several unconstitutional speech codes. The codes were challenged in a lawsuit filed by attorneys from the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) in cooperation with the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (果冻传媒app官方).

This lawsuit鈥攖he latest in 果冻传媒app官方鈥檚 Speech Codes Litigation Project鈥攚as filed by the SFSU College Republicans and two of the group鈥檚 individual members after SFSU violated the group鈥檚 First Amendment rights last year by dragging them through a 5-month investigation and hearing for engaging in nothing more than constitutionally protected expression.

The transcript of the hearing, available on 果冻传媒app官方鈥檚 website, reveals a judge with a refreshing grasp of the First Amendment. U.S. Magistrate Judge Wayne Brazil鈥攚ho described himself as a 鈥渇riend of the First Amendment鈥濃攖old the parties present at the hearing that the many cases restricting the free speech rights of high school students were not applicable in this case, because 鈥渦niversity students are supposed to be adults,鈥 and also because 鈥渢he mission of a university is to explore with considerable assertiveness鈥 and with 鈥渦ntrammeled energy鈥 important issues facing society. Judge Brazil added that 鈥渢hat鈥檚 not the mission of a high school.鈥

Several of the policies enjoined are applicable to the entire CSU System, which means that hundreds of thousands of students are freer thanks to Judge Brazil鈥檚 decision. This is a decisive victory for free speech on campus.

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