first amendment

DePauw, Indiana, Notre Dame and Purdue universities were included in the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression’s latest survey results.

Ken Falk, the organization’s legal director, said Thursday the policy, which prohibits expressive activity between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m., is “overly broad and violates the First Amendment.”

The Bloomington City Council is still exploring possible changes to its processes for public comment following hate speech at its April 3 meeting.

The Bloomington City Council plans to reevaluate its procedures for public comment after a recent meeting was flooded with hate speech.

A preliminary injunction in a lawsuit to stop Indiana’s “Don’t Say Gay” law has been denied by a federal judge.

The decision to reject the application for the mural comes after the city updated its policy on public art rules.

The lawsuit argued archdiocese leaders wrongfully fired a teacher by mandating that all Catholic schools under its purview enforce a morality clause barring employees from entering into same-sex marriages.

Judge Tanya Walton Pratt said 68-year-old Richard England’s poem amounted to political hyperbole and that the decision to ban him without due process was a violation of his First and Fourteenth Amendment rights.