Christian Students Ask Supreme Court to Review Case Over Free Speech Rights on Campus
(Worthy News) – Two Christian students have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a lawsuit against a Georgia College, claiming that the college’s speech zone and speech code policies violated the students’ First Amendment rights.
Chike Uzuegbunam and Joseph Bradford, who were both students at Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC) at the time when the lawsuit was filed, sued multiple GGC officials challenging two policies in the GGC’s Student Handbook: the “Freedom of Expression Policy” and the “Student Code of Conduct” that they say prevented them from exercising their freedom of speech and freedom to exercise rights, according to Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), the religious rights law firm representing the students in the case.
In 2016, Uzuegbunam attempted to distribute religious literature in a plaza at the GGC campus. Shortly afterward, he was told to stop by a campus security officer, who informed him that he was not allowed to distribute materials at the location. According to campus speech zone policy, students had to reserve one of the two zones available on campus to exercise their free speech. The two zones made up only 0.0015 percent of the campus. [ Source (Read More…) ]