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Popa, Christina

In May 2009, the student affairs advisor for the Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology Department at UCLA, e-mailed all graduating...

Institution: University of California, Los Angeles

Location: Whittier, CA

Topic: Speech Code, Establishment Clause

Intervention: Non-litigation

Outcome: Victory

Pearson, Caleb

In 2010, Caleb Pearson, a student at Chemeketa Community College in Oregon, passed out pro-life fliers and displayed pro-life signs on...

Institution: Chemeketa Community College

Location: Salem, OR

Topic: Speech Code, Speech Zone

Intervention: Non-litigation

Outcome: Victory

OSU Student Alliance v. Ray

In 2009, The Liberty, a conservative/independent student newspaper at Oregon State University, discovered that its distribution bins on campus were...

Institution: Oregon State University

Location: Corvallis, OR

Topic: Speech Zone

Intervention: Litigation

Outcome: Victory

O’Brien v. Welty

Neil O'Brien was a student at California State University, Fresno. When students published an anti-American poem in the school newspaper,...

Institution: California State University, Fresno

Location: Fresno, CA

Topic: Speech Code

Intervention: Litigation

Outcome: Mixed

Employee at California State University, East Bay

Every year, an employee at Cal State University East Bay put up a five-foot tall Christmas tree in the front lobby. In...

Institution: California State University East Bay

Location: Castro Valley, CA

Topic: Establishment Clause

Intervention: Non-litigation

Outcome: Victory

Northern Arizona University

In April 2012, ADF sent an information letter to Northern Arizona University addressing its unconstitutional speech code and other policies...

Institution: Northern Arizona University

Location: Flagstaff, AZ

Topic: Speech Code, Freedom of Association

Intervention: Non-litigation

Outcome: Victory

Miles Community College

In 2014, ADF sent an information letter to Miles Community College addressing its unconstitutional speech code policy. The College responded...

Institution: Miles Community College

Location: Miles City, MT

Topic: Speech Code

Intervention: Non-litigation

Outcome: Victory

Student Government President at Sacramento City College

The Center for Bioethical Reform asked for approval to include the Genocide Awareness Project display in “Constitution Day” at Sacramento...

Institution: Sacramento City College

Location: Sacramento, CA

Topic: Speech Code, Speech Zone

Intervention: Non-litigation

Outcome: Victory

Lucas v. Johnson

Michael Lucas, a former student and football player for Colorado School of Mines received a call from the alumni association...

Institution: Colorado School of the Mines

Location: Windsor, CO

Topic: Establishment Clause

Intervention: Litigation

Outcome: Mixed

New Road Christian Fellowship

In 2013, a Colorado State University official stopped a student from talking to other students about his faith – instructing...

Institution: Colorado State University

Location: Fort Collins, CO

Topic: Speech Zone

Intervention: Non-litigation

Outcome: Victory

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