Speech First v. Sands, et al.; Alliance Defending Freedom & Manhattan Institute Amicus Brief

On September 18, 2023, Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) and the Manhattan Institute (MI) filed an amicus (“friend of the court”) brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear Speech First’s challenge to Virginia Tech’s bias incident policy and Bias Intervention and Response Team (BIRT). The groups argued that Virginia Tech’s bias incident policy is antithetical to free speech and that the Fourth Circuit joined the wrong side of a deep and mature split among appeals courts.

Read the full brief below:


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