Posted on 04/16/2010 9:04:45 PM PDT by george76
Bill Ayers and a University of Wyoming student filed suit against UW on Thursday, asking a federal judge for an injunction allowing Ayers to speak on campus later this month.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Cheyenne, comes three days after UW banned Ayers, a University of Illinois-Chicago education professor with a radical past, from using any university venue for a planned April 28 lecture.
The lawsuit alleges the ban is unconstitutional under First Amendment rights to free speech and to assemble.
In 1969, Ayers co-founded the Weather Underground, a Marxist-Leninist anti-war group that claimed responsibility for a series of bombings -- including explosions at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol in the early 1970s that didn't kill anyone.
David Lane, the Denver-based attorney who represents Ayers and Lanker...
In 2005, Lane won an injunction for another controversial figure, former University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill, to speak on CU's campus.
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He is a unrepentent terrorist. He got his $5k. If he cashed the Check he doesn’t have a leg to stand on.
Exactly.
People are discriminating against this poor man just because he’s a terrorist.
“The lawsuit alleges the ban is unconstitutional under First Amendment rights to free speech and to assemble.”
Ask Ann Coulter and David Horowitz about the right of free speech and assembly. Stick Ayers in jail and throw away the key.
That is seriously stupid. The freedom to assemble doesn't mean you can go just anywhere and pontificate. You can't walk into a movie theater and start shouting about some topic, and you can't walk into a classroom and disrupt that either.
If the suit is allowed to proceed Ayers could be forced to answer questions under oath about his past. Of course, UW has no intention of doing this to a high-profile Pinko.
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