On January 6, 2020, 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 Iowa to block three Iowa State University (ISU) practices while its lawsuit goes on. Speech First challenged a chalking policy that lets only registered student groups chalk campus sidewalks, a ban on using university email to support candidates or ballot issues, and a Campus Climate Reporting System that responds to vaguely defined “bias incidents.”
Read the full brief below:
