VICTORY: Chicago State to rewrite policies, pay $650,000 to settle professors’ First Amendment lawsuit
By FIRE January 8, 2019
University repeatedly tried to shut down faculty blog critical of former administration
Settlement is the 13th for FIRE’s litigation project, aimed at eliminating campus speech codes that plague 90 percent of public colleges
CHICAGO, Jan. 8, 2019 — Chicago State University has agreed to pay $650,000 to settle a First Amendment lawsuit filed by faculty after administrators tried to silence a blog critical of the then-sitting CSU administration. The lawsuit was one of four filed on July 1, 2014, that launched the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education’s Stand Up For Speech Litigation Project.
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