First Amendment suit challenges shuttering of University of Alabama magazines

Eight University of Alabama students sued the university’s board of trustees, claiming the abrupt suspension and defunding of two student magazines amounts to unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination under the First Amendment.

The lawsuit, filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, centers on the magazines Alice and Nineteen Fifty-Six, award-winning, student-run publications that had operated for years under the university’s Office of Student Media and Media Planning Board.

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