On May 31, 2024, Speech First, a national membership group of students, alumni, and others that defends free speech on campus, asked the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana to block Indiana University’s (IU) bias incidents policy while the case goes on. Speech First argued that the policy is vague, overbroad, and viewpoint-based in violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments, while acknowledging that binding Seventh Circuit precedent required the court to deny the request.
Read the full brief below: