Posted on 09/08/2016 6:47:27 AM PDT by marktwain
On 6 June, 2016, Two professors from the University of Texas, Austin and a Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor filled a lawsuit against the state Attorney General, the President of the University of Texas at Austin, and the members of the Board of Regents of the University of Texas at Austin. The lawsuit makes a number of frivilous claims, including that the law is vague, the law violates the plaintiffs’ First Amendment, Second Amendment, and Fourteenth Amendment rights. The arguments were childish, irrational, emotional rants. Here is an example:
48. The Texas statutes and university policies that prohibit Plaintiffs from exercising their individual option to forbid handguns in their classrooms violate the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, as applied in Texas through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. These policies and procedures deprive Plaintiffs of their Second Amendment right to defend themselves and others in their classrooms from handgun violence by compelling them as public employees to passively acquiesce in the presence of loaded weaponry in their place of public employment without the individual possession and use of such weaponry in public being well-regulated. This infringement lacks any important justification and is imposed without any substantial link between the objectives of the policies and the means chosen to achieve them.
A right to violate others Second Amendment rights in public places. That is a novel interpretation of the Second Amendment. Positively Orwellian.
The lawsuit was first heard on 4 August, 2016. The Plaintiffs asked for a preliminary injunction to suspend the implementation of the law while the lawsuit proceeded. Preliminary injunctions are seldom granted. The requirements are fairly rigorous. From the case documents:
(1) a substantial likelihood of success on the merits,
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How are these idiot professors even going to know? (Actually, I like this situation. It drives them crazy guessing, which is fine with me.)
Time for resignations. Now.
without the individual possession and use of such weaponry in public being well-regulated.
They want the students to practice using and maintain their weapons in class?
It’s been ten days that open carry on ut’s campus was mandated by the law.So far, no Leftist professors have been shot, not that they haven’t deserved it.
Ed Zachary! It's CONCEALED!
No preliminary injunction. So does it still move to trial?
An appeal won’t have much chance at the fifth circuit.
Not certain yet. I do not think the judge has ruled on motions for declaratory judgement yet.
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