On September 18, 2023, the Alumni Free Speech Alliance and other alumni free speech groups 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 bias response systems, now adopted by many if not most American universities, are regularly used and contribute to an atmosphere of suspicion and repression on campus.
Read the full brief below:
