Jul 20, 2021
Legal Question: Whether a public university’s interest in maintaining a “strict separation of church and state” allows it to bar religious student groups from reserving facilities for worship.
Action: The Court held that the policy was not content-neutral, violating the student group’s First Amendment rights.
Jul 12, 2021
The opinions in Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L.’s are read by Dylan Moore and Jeff Murphy, FIRE Law Clerks from the University of Chicago Law School.
Held: “While public schools may have a special interest in regulating some off-campus student speech, the special interests offered by the school are...