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Stanford University student journalist arrested after barricading an office building (case dropped)

June 2024
Stanford University

California prosecutors have declined to pursue felony charges of burglary, vandalism, and conspiracy against Dilan Gohill, the Stanford Daily freshman reporter arrested last June while covering a pre‑dawn occupation of the university president’s office. District Attorney Jeff Rosen noted there is no evidence Gohill did anything beyond reporting, and although the review of the twelve […]

Students for Justice in Palestine, at the University of Houston v. Abbott

May 2024
University of Houston

The Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of Houston and the University of Texas at Dallas brought suit over Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s executive order dealing with campus free speech. The order demands that public universities in Texas to update their policies in response to speech deemed antisemitic. The universities revised their speech […]

Wirtshafter v. Trustees of Indiana University

May 2024
Indiana University of Bloomington

The ACLU of Indiana has filed a lawsuit against Indiana University Bloomington, alleging that the university violated the First Amendment rights of three individuals by imposing a one-year ban on IU campus after the three individuals participated in protests at a historic public forum for free speech on campus. The protests were focused on demanding […]

Singh v. Amar

From April 2022, to December 2022
University of Illinois College of Law

Plaintiff … is a second-year law student at the University of Illinois College of Law. Mr. Singh enrolled in the University on a full-tuition merit scholarship and eventually was invited to join the Illinois Law Review. Shortly after beginning his first semester, Mr. Singh met with Defendant Virginia Vermillion, the law school’s Dean of Students, to […]

Kay v. Irish Rover

October 2022
The University of Notre Dame du Lac

Indiana Judge dismisses Notre Dame professor’s defamation suit against student journalists under state anti-SLAPP laws.