Federal appeals court rules UCF speech policies ‘likely violate’ First Amendment

Published April 22, 2022 12:00am ET



The University of Central Florida‘s policies on harassment and utilization of a bias response team likely violate the First Amendment, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.

In a unanimous opinion, a three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the campus free speech organization, Speech First, was likely to prevail in its challenge against several UCF policies that governed campus speech.

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