Chike Uzuegbunam, a student at Georgia Gwinnett College, was stopped from distributing literature outside of the College’s two designated free speech zones. When Uzuegbanum reserved one of the free speech zones for his own use, he was again stopped by campus police on the grounds that his conduct constituted disorderly conduct. Uzuegbunam filed suit against various college officials challenging the college’s policy under the First and Fourteenth Amendments.

A politically conservative student at the California State University, Fresno confronted two professors about a poem in the student newspaper. The professors responded by calling the campus police and the university filed disciplinary charges against the student for “threatening behavior.” The student filed suit against various University officials alleging violations of his First Amendment rights.

Bryan Stascavage—a 30-year-old Iraq veteran and Wesleyan student—wrote an opinion column for the Wesleyan Argus, a student newspaper, criticizing Black Lives Matter’s tactics and messaging. Almost immediately students began protesting the article, starting by vandalizing and destroying copies of the newspaper across campus. The protestors also demanded that the student government defund the Argus unless a series of diversity-based demands were met. Due to widespread backlash from the administration and the general public, the student government dropped the defunding proposal.

On two separate occasions, J. Michael Brown and other individuals associated with the Young Americans for Liberty group engaged in speech activity on the campus of Jones County Junior College, including attempting to solicit individuals for their group and soliciting their opinions on the potential legalization of recreational marijuana. As a result of that speech, Brown and others were reprimanded by campus officials, prevented from engaging further in such speech, and told that they needed a prior approval from the school before they engaged in such activity.

In October 2019, two students at the University of Connecticut were arrested by University police for shouting the n-word in a parking lot late at night. Following this incident, the University began disciplinary proceedings. As a result of those proceedings, administrators found that the students were determined to have violated school policy and suggested that the students’ housing agreements with the school be terminated. In January, the students were informed of an imminent hearing on the situation. In response, the students filed a complaint against the school alleging violation of their First Amendment rights and requesting a temporary restraining order preventing the school from sanctioning the students.

Jason Roberts—a student at Texas Tech University Law School (“TTU”)—requested permission to give a speech and hand out literature on campus detailing his religious and political views on homosexuality. Roberts declined to use the “free speech area” at the school, instead requesting a specific location on a street corner on campus. Although the school ultimately granted his request—albeit at a location across the street from his desired location—Roberts filed suit against TTU in the Northern District of Texas alleging that the school’s speech policy violated his First Amendment Rights. Even though TTU amended their speech policy after Roberts filed suit, the court held that the amended speech policy still violated the First Amendment due to its overbreadth and due to TTU’s failure to show a sufficient interest in controlling student speech to justify the speech policy’s intrusion on students’ First Amendment rights. Thus, the court struck down several provisions of TTU’s amended student speech policy as unconstitutional, granting declaratory and injunctive relief to Roberts.

Student was instructed by university official that she and her friends would need “special permission” to display political signs on campus, and to remain within the college’s “free speech zone” if she wanted to demonstrate. As part of the settlement agreement, Blinn College agreed to revise restrictive policies targeted in the lawsuit to comply with the First Amendment. Blinn also agreed to pay student Nicole Sanders $50,000 for damages and attorney’s fees.

A student at Texas Christian University was disciplined for publishing Tweets that the school viewed as inconsistent with its student code of conduct.

A high school disciplined a student for creating an offensive video and then allegedly created a hostile environment against the student, when the student threatened to bring a lawsuit against the school district.