UNC Protesters Get Pause on Indefinite Chapel Hill Campus Ban

Three pro-Palestinian protesters at the University of North Carolina are likely to succeed on the merits of their claim that the indefinite campus ban imposed on them violates their free expression rights, a federal judge said.

University officials haven’t offered “any basis” for why an open-ended ban from UNC’s Chapel Hill campus is reasonable for the trio who maintain the right to keep demonstrating on the university’s “open, outdoor spaces,” said Judge Thomas D. Schroeder of the US District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina in a Thursday opinion.

“Ultimately, the indefinite duration of the bans, coupled ...