The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit sided with Northwest Missouri State University, holding the school’s policy of requiring anyone handing out non-university-related publications on campus to have administrative permission didn’t violate the First Amendment.

The question before the court was whether university’s advance notice policy, which requires those who wish to hand out pamphlets on campus to notify an administrator before distributing “non-University publications,” violated the First Amendment.

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