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ACLU of Michigan Files Lawsuit Against U-M Over Campus Bans on Pro-Palestine Protestors

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ANN ARBOR, Feb. 4, 2025 ~ The ACLU of Michigan filed a lawsuit Monday against the University of Michigan on behalf of two students, two alums, and one outside protester who were banned from campus for participating in pro-Palestine protests.

The lawsuit accuses the university of violating the protestor’s First Amendment rights after banning these protestors who voiced objections to the school not divesting funds from companies tied to Israel, with the protests taking place during the country’s brutal assault on the Palestinian territories of Gaza and the West Bank. The university considers these protestors as trespassers on most of its campus under the bans.


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Feb. 4, 2025 ~ On Monday, the ACLU of Michigan filed suit in federal court against the University of Michigan, challenging the university’s trespass ban against pro-Palestine protestors. Ramis Wadood, staff attorney at the ACLU of Michigan, joins Kevin Dietz to layout the lawsuit.


(CONTINUED) “Virtually all of the complaints that we at the ACLU of Michigan have received over the last year and a half have been from pro-Palestine protesters, that the university is doing this, not only banning (protestors) from campus, but initiating a whole array of disciplinary proceedings against students and student groups,” Ramis Wadood, staff attorney at the ACLU of Michigan, told WJR. “This university has a history, a really honorable history, of promoting dialogue and protest. They brag about it on their websites. There’s an entire history of protest and debate on campus, and that’s the unfortunate outcome here, that despite this history, despite communicating that all dialogue is welcome on campus, no matter how controversial, no matter how divisive, no matter how emotional. In reality, what the university has been doing over the last year and a half flies in the face of that history and commitment.


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