9th Circ. Sides With Wash. Professor In Free Speech Case
By Rachel Riley ( December 22, 2025, 8:20 PM EST) -- A split Ninth Circuit panel has determined that the University of Washington violated a professor's First Amendment rights by punishing him for mocking a suggested Native American land acknowledgment, concluding in a new published opinion that "student discomfort" alone is not enough to warrant restrictions on academic free speech....
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