Nov 25 (Reuters) – A federal judge has ordered the University of Florida to reinstate a law student it expelled for making controversial statements about race and religion, including a post on X that said “Jews must be abolished by any means necessary.”
Chief U.S. District Judge Allen Winsor in Tallahassee granted a preliminary injunction, opens new tab on Monday requiring plaintiff Preston Damsky be readmitted to the Gainesville law school for now, finding that the school had not shown his statements online and in academic papers were true threats of violence and that the expulsion likely violated his free speech rights under the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment.
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