Speech First v. Cartwright et al.; 11th Circuit Decision

On April 21, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled for Speech First in its challenge to the University of Central Florida (UCF)’s speech policies. The court held that Speech First has standing because the policies chill its members’ speech, that the discriminatory-harassment policy likely violates the First Amendment as an overbroad, content- and viewpoint-based rule, and that the district court must decide the bias-related incidents policy’s constitutionality.

Read the full decision below:


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