UCSD Student Paper May Pursue 1st Amendment Suit Over Defunding

A University of California San Diego student newspaper defunded after running an article satirizing the concept of safe spaces can proceed with First Amendment claims, the Ninth Circuit ruled.

A lower court erred in dismissing claims by The Koala newspaper that the student government violated the free press and free speech clauses when it eliminated student organization funding for all print media, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said July 24.

The Koala may go forward with its free press claim, having alleged that the state singled out the press by withholding a subsidy in response to ...