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Speech Org. Settles With U of Illinois About Bias Response By   The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Speech First, a national organization that advocates for student free speech, settled a lawsuit on Tuesday, in which the group challenged a number of bias-related policies at the campus. The settlement narrowly allows both the university and Speech First to avoid taking the matter to the United States Supreme Court; Speech First planned to request this week that the court review ...

What’s free speech worth? At argument, Supreme Court weighs censorship’s cost. For decades, the Supreme Court has confirmed that when the government violates First Amendment rights, it causes “irreparable injury” to those silenced. Freedom of expression is so vital to our democracy that censorship is intolerable, even for a short time, and money alone does not adequately remedy its harm.  But questions posed from the bench during the Court’s oral arguments last week in Uzuegbunam v. ...

Predictions of discrimination against conservatives came true The College Fix recently spoke to a handful of experts on free speech about the obstacles students faced in the fall semester. In August 2020, The Fixspoke to many of these same experts about their concerns about how coronavirus restrictions would limit freedom of expression. They noted at the time that with the return of school and the issue of COVID-19 there was an increased possibility that the First Amendment rights of students ...

A University of Texas group that was created to help students report hateful comments, prejudiced behavior or other incidents of alleged bias has been disbanded amid an ongoing dispute about the limits of campus speech. In a Dec. 22 settlement with a national free speech group, the university agreed to disband the Campus Climate Reporting Team, made up of university officials and professors. "Political correctness is being ended at the University of Texas at Austin," Gov. Greg Abbott wrote on T...

University of Texas to Disband Bias Response Team to Settle Free Speech Lawsuit The University of Texas (UT) has agreed to abolish its bias response team to resolve a First Amendment lawsuit that alleged the university intentionally chilled student speech on campus. The Campus Climate Response Team (CCRT), according to UT’s website, was formed to help students report incidents of alleged bias, including “hateful comments” or “prejudiced behavior.” In 2018, free speech advocacy group S...

Texas campuses will have to allow free speech, not satire The University of Texas in Austin has agreed to end its Campus Climate Response Team to end a lawsuit. The university clearly violated campus free speech. The UT website states the team was enacted to help students report hateful comments, prejudiced behavior, or other incidents of alleged bias. Examples include derogatory graffiti, verbal harassment, hostile classroom environments, or hateful written comments in regard to topics such a...

A Lone Star Speech Victory The University of Texas at Austin will dissolve its bias-response team. The University of Texas campus in Austin. Photo: Ralph Barrera/Zuma Press By Dec. 24, 2020 6:35 pm ET Political speech is under attack these days from Beijing to Berkeley, so we’ll take victories where we can get them. One arrived Tuesday when the University of Texas at Austin agreed to disband its PC police and end policies that suppress speech on camp...

Zach Greenberg says awful things for a living. He doesn’t (necessarily) believe them. The Philadelphia-based lawyer quotes the awful things other people say, sometimes taken from court decisions, when he gives legal presentations on controversial speech and the First Amendment. His career, reputation and very sanity are threatened by newly amended “rules of professional conduct,” approved by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, that could get lawyers investigated and punished for the subjectiv...

Employed by us response teams. what is that? its a squad of busybody administrators who encourage students to import proper thought crimes by their classmates. we spoke with speech first president nicole neely about this disturbing trend, and heres what she said. did i overstate that? bias response teams? they squeeze out of the rafters to arrest you if you have an unapproved thought? >> yes, theres actually an online porter on the university of michigans website where you can see his report spe...

A squad of busybody administrators who encourage students to import proper thought crimes by their classmates. we spoke with speech first president nicole neely about this disturbing trend and heres what she said. did i restate that? by us response teams? they squeeze out of the rafters to arrest you if you have an unapproved thought question mexico yes theres actually an online porter on the university of michigans website where you can see his report speech that you have overheard some of you ...