USF professor, student challenge controversial new law
and the First Amendment Forum at University of South Florida raised a series of arguments that the law violates speech rights.
The lawsuit, filed by attorneys with the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression and Gainesville attorney“The speech rights of each of the plaintiffs has been chilled now and will be chilled in the future, as the Stop WOKE Act infringes on their First Amendment rights if they continue to engage in the kind of expression forbidden by the law,” the lawsuit said.
As an example, the law labels instruction discriminatory if students are led to believe that they bear “responsibility for, or should be discriminated against or receive adverse treatment because of, actions committed in the past by other members of the same race, color, national origin or sex.”
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