On Thursday, Young America’s Foundation (YAF) filed a lawsuit against the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), alleging a First Amendment Violation after the university blocked the organization from hosting a lecture by author Robert Spencer last spring.
Spencer was set to speak at a pro-Israel event in mid-May and deliver a speech titled “Everything You Know About Palestine Is Wrong.” Yet, despite tolerating months of protests and demonstrations by anti-Israel agitators, the university threw up multiple roadblocks to the planned YAF event.
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The complaint, which may be viewed in full below, was filed by Mountain States Legal Foundation and Lex Rex Institute on behalf of YAF and activists Brooke Broll and Macy Roepke and names several UCLA administrators who they assert violated the YAF students’ First Amendment rights by caving to pro-Hamas agitators, essentially affording them a “heckler’s veto.” It seeks a preliminary and permanent injunction prohibiting UCLA from engaging in viewpoint discrimination and further requests that the university be compelled to provide security equally regardless of the content of the speech. The suit further seeks a finding that UCLA’s actions regarding the Spencer lecture violated the First Amendment and seeks compensatory and nominal damages as well as punitive damages and attorney fees. […]
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