The University of Texas at Austin Tower. Photo courtesy of the university.
An Austin federal judge dismissed a free speech lawsuit that alleged The University of Texas at Austin chilled three students’ speech on controversial topics like the #MeToo movement, illegal immigration, gun rights, affirmative action and more.
The plaintiff, Speech First Inc., is a Washington, D.C.-based association of students, parents and alumni that files First Amendment litigation against universities. Aside from this case, the group has ongoing litigation against the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in an Illinois federal trial court, and against the University of Michigan in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
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