Question Presented (from Petition)
1. Whether a student and student organizations
investigated for possibly violating a public
university's regulations governing on-campus
speech have standing to bring a First
Amendment challenge to the vagueness and
overbreadth of the regulations where the
university declined either to clarify the
regulations or disavow future enforcement?
2. Whether a public university's anti-harassment
policy violates the First Amendment where it
authorizes the university to restrict speech based
on broad, vague, and undefined terms, and does
not require that prohibited speech be objectively
offensive?
3. Whether a public university violates the First
Amendment when its campus speech regulations
lack any process for screening insubstantial or
frivolous complaints and its investigative procedures impose burdens on speakers, including a
gag order, during pendency of the investigation?
4. Whether university officials are entitled to
qualified immunity when they enforce university
anti-discrimination policies by placing the burden
on speakers to justify their engagement in controversial speech?
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether students have standing to challenge university speech regulations
2019-03-04
Motion for leave to file amici brief filed by First Amendment Clinics at Duke Law, et al. GRANTED.
2019-03-04
Motion for leave to file amici brief filed by the South Carolina ACLU, et al. GRANTED.
2019-02-13
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/1/2019.
2019-02-11
Reply of petitioners Ross Abbott, et al. filed. (Distributed)
2019-01-30
Brief of respondents Harris Pastides, et al. in opposition filed.
2019-01-04
Response in opposition to motion to file amici curiae brief of South Carolina ACLU, et al. from respondents Harris Pastides, et al. filed.
2019-01-03
Response in opposition to motion to file amici curiae brief of First Amendment Clinics at Duke Law, et al. from respondents Harris Pastides, et al. filed.
2018-12-28
Motion for leave to file amici brief filed by The South Carolina ACLU, et al.
2018-12-26
Motion for leave to file amici brief filed by First Amendment Clinics at Duke Law, et al. (12/27/2018)
2018-12-21
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including January 30, 2019.
2018-12-19
Motion to extend the time to file a response from December 31, 2018 to January 30, 2019, submitted to The Clerk.
2018-12-18
Blanket Consent filed by Petitioners, Ross Abbott, et al..
2018-11-21
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 31, 2018)