Preliminary injunction allows some campus distribution of information
Students who are trying to build a base of conservative citizens on a Florida college campus have been given some First Amendment rights to hand out information and talk to others.That's the result for the Palm Beach State chapter of the Young Americans for Freedom, who were granted a temporary injunction in their confrontation with the school over their rights to talk to others and recruit.
According to the Alliance Defense Fund, which is representing the students, the school has agreed to a court injunction that will allow two students to "disseminate leaflets and/or converse with the general public."
The injunction allows the group to give out literature four or five days each month while the full lawsuit is litigated. The injunction agreement also requires the school to do a full campus club policy review.
The YAF chapter filed the suit in November in response to a decision by campus authorities to escort two YAF members off campus for giving out a Heritage Foundation policy paper analyzing the impact of Barack Obama's stimulus bills.
Freedom of speech seems only to apply when the authorities agree with the speech. There is no ideology mentioned in the First Amendment.
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