Texas Ban on Late-Night Campus Expression Faces Suit (1)

A new Texas law limiting the number of hours and days college students can participate in various forms of expression violates free speech protections, several student groups allege in a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday.

“The First Amendment does not go to bed when the sun goes down. Nor does it take days off,” the students argued in the complaint.

The students sued Chancellor John Zerwas at the University of Texas System, the system’s board of regents, and President James Davis at UT Austin and President Prabhas Moghe at UT Dallas.

The Texas law, which went into effect Sept. ...