Inside Higher Ed: Limits on Free Speech
Public universities have the right to set limits on spending in student government elections, even though the U.S. Supreme Court has barred such limits in federal and state elections as infringements on free speech, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued the unanimous ruling in a case involving a challenge to a $100 spending limit set by the University of Montana. The court found that the university’s educational mission — and the relationship between the rules on election spending and that spending — gave the university the right to limit the speech encompassed by campaign spending.
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