Legal Insurrection:
“barring the publication in retaliation for content it published violates its free press and free speech rights”
The Koala is a satirical student run publication at the school. They sued the school over alleged funding bias and their lawsuit was thrown out, but now an appeals court has reinstated it.
Inside Higher Ed reports:
Even ‘Offensive’ Publications Have Free Press Rights
“The worst in collegiate journalism since 1982!” The Koala, a student publication at the University of California, San Diego, boasts on its home page.
But a student publication is a student publication, whether it traffics in satire or offensive material (as many at UCSD believe The Koala does) or, more traditionally, in nonfake news. And if a public university allows student publications to compete with other student groups for funds, barring the publication in retaliation for content it published violates its free press and free speech rights, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
In the 9th too.
They seem to be making a few more constitutionally based and less biased rulings lately, maybe just a coincidental sequence or maybe it indicates something is changing there.