Judge Gives Green Light To YAF’s Suit Against UC Berkeley Over Shapiro’s Event

On Wednesday, a federal judge in San Francisco ruled to allow Young America’s Foundation’s First Amendment lawsuit against the University of California, Berkeley, to move forward.

UC Berkeley will have to answer, at trial, for its unconstitutional application of the Major Events policy with respect to the lecture of Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro last September. Judge Maxine Chesney permitted YAF to proceed with its First Amendment (Freedom of Expression) and Fourteenth Amendment (Equal Protection) claims. YAF had compared the university’s treatment of Shapiro to its treatment of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor; Chesney said the case YAF made was persuasive, including its criticism of Berkeley’s use of security fees to suppress conservative speech.