In early May 2018, we covered a lawsuit brought by a new group called Speech First challenging U. Michigan’s Bias Response Teams, Lawsuit: U. Michigan speech code and Bias Response Team “profoundly chill…
Just one day after the U.S. Department of Justice announced it would join a lawsuit challenging the University of Michigan’s anti-harassment policies on grounds they allegedly violate the First Amendment, university officials have decided to…
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a statement of interest in a lawsuit challenging the University of Michigan’s controversial speech code policies. The DOJ announced the move in a press release Monday,…
The Trump administration weighed in Monday on a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of policies prohibiting the expression of “bias” at the University of Michigan, arguing that the public school has been unlawfully punishing students…
Washington — The U.S. Department of Justice is supporting a plaintiff that sued the University of Michigan, with government lawyers calling the school’s speech vague and overly broad on the same day that UM announced updates to its…
The U.S. Department of Justice went on the attack against the University of Michigan’s free speech code Monday, saying universities and colleges haven’t done a good job of creating true freedom of speech on their…