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David Hacker: A big win for college free speech in the 9th Circuit

By Alliance Alert

ADF Attorney David Hacker writing at Speak Up Movement / university (via the Christian Post?s Advancing Religious Liberty blog): Thursday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued an important college free speech decision in a case that pits a college harassment policy against a professor?s racially insensitive comments. (H/t to Professor Volokh who has thorough coverage here, here, here, and here.) . . . The Ninth Circuit . . . found that the officials deserved qualified immunity because the Equal Protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment did not give the employees a right to be free from offensive speech on a college campus."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on May 21, 2010 (boomark / email).