University Of Minnesota Tries To Dismiss Lawsuit From Shapiro And YAF

The University of Minnesota has filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit filed against it by Young America’s Foundation, Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro, and the student group Students for a Conservative Voice (SCV) that argues top-level administrators at the university participated in “viewpoint-based censorship” of conservative students.

The lawsuit arose after Shapiro was scheduled to speak at the university last February and the university would not offer a lecture hall on the main campus for the event. As AlphaNews reports, “internal emails later revealed top-level UMN administrators actively censored the event featuring Shapiro.” The defendants named in the lawsuit include the president of the university; the vice president of university services; the chief of police of the university; the lieutenant of the University of Minnesota police department, and the assistant director of Student Unions & Activities of University of Minnesota.