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Jan 13th, 2021 4 min read COMMENTARY BY Legal Fellow, Meese Center GianCarlo is a Legal Fellow in the Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. The U.S. Supreme Court is seen on Thursday, January 7, 2021. Bill Clark / Contributor / Getty Images Key Takeaways The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Jan. 12 in Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski. The case was brought by Chike Uzuegbunam, who was a student at Georgia Gwinnett College from 2013 to 2017. At the end of the arguments, it was not clear how the justices were leaning, but on balance Uzuegbunam has the better argument. The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Jan. 12 in Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski, a case that will decide whether public universities that infringe their students’ First Amendment right to free speech can be held accountable for it. ....
Chike Uzuegbunam is a former student at Georgia Gwinnett College who in 2016 was stopped from sharing his faith on campus. | YouTube/Alliance Defending Freedom The United States Supreme Court will soon decide whether a college that ordered a Christian student to cease preaching on campus can be punished even though the administration has since changed the institution s free speech policies. Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski, which is centered on George Gwinnett College’s treatment of student Chike Uzuegbunam. Gwinnett punished Uzuegbunam for preaching outside of an on-campus free speech zone, prompting the student to file a lawsuit which resulted in Gwinnett changing its policies. ....
6222313693001 A Georgia college threatened to arrest a student for sharing his faith on campus back in 2016. After that threat, Chike Uzuegbunam and another Gwinnett College student sued the school. The case was eventually dropped because Gwinnett ended its restrictive speech policy. So the college didn’t have to pay at all for the damage it did to Uzuegbunam’s free speech rights. That lack of accountability and justice resulted in the Supreme Court taking up the issue Tuesday. Since Georgia Gwinnett College stopped blocking speech after it was sued, it argued before the Supreme Court it shouldn’t be penalized. As attorney Andrew Pinson put it, “The way that this case was resolved was a good thing. Litigation prompted college officials to review their policies and just 10 weeks later to revise them. That maximized and respected First Amendment rights on campus, not just for petitioners, but for all students.” ....
Getting a ‘couple annoying texts’ is worse than First Amendment violation? Taylor Swift’s decision to seek just $1 from a radio host she claimed groped her may end up changing the power dynamics between universities and their students. In oral argument Tuesday, Supreme Court justices cited the singer’s successful lawsuit against David Mueller in 2017 as evidence of the importance of “nominal damages” in litigation for injuries that are hard to quantify in monetary terms, such as constitutional violations. Advocacy groups from across the ideological spectrum supported the two students who sued Georgia Gwinnett College for unconstitutionally shutting down and chilling their evangelism on the public campus. ....