Conservative Students Score Legal Victory at Clovis Community College
“barred the State Center Community College District in California and its campuses from enforcing policies that discriminate against student groups based on their views”
More conservative students need to get more active and fight back like this.
Inside Higher Ed reports:
Court Order Sides With Conservative Students at Clovis Community College
A court order from a U.S. district judge, issued Friday, barred the State Center Community College District in California and its campuses from enforcing policies that discriminate against student groups based on their views.
The move comes after the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression sued Clovis Community College, a part of the State Center district, in 2022 on behalf of students from a campus chapter of Young Americans for Freedom, a conservative student organization. The students alleged they were ordered to take down fliers with conservative messaging, which infringed on their free speech rights. Administrators reportedly cited a posting policy that prevented “inappropriate or offensive” fliers. An appellate court sided with the students last summer.
The order permanently bars the State Center Community College District from “any unlawful viewpoint-discriminatory, overbroad, or vague regulation, or prior restraint, on the content of the speech of recognized student clubs, including but not limited to bans on ‘inappropriate’ or ‘offensive’ language.”
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Good outcome.
Absolutely. But it’s appalling that it took a lawsuit to force the administrators to do what they should have known they had to do.
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