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'We wanted to level the playing field' on campus, said attorney Harmeet Dhillon for the Young America’s Foundation   University of California, Berkeley, will no longer be able to charge its student groups any security costs for speakers in a move that conservative groups are...

The University of California at Berkeley on Monday settled a free speech lawsuit accusing the school of discriminating against speakers with conservative views. Under the settlement filed with the federal court in San Francisco, the university will modify its procedures for handling “major events,” which...

Some conservative groups are calling it a landmark victory for free speech at UC Berkeley, home of the free speech movement. A lawsuit filed by the Young America's Foundation, claims, in part, that UC Berkeley violated the First Amendment rights of conservative students by placing...

On Monday, Young America’s Foundation won a major victory for free speech, settling a lawsuit it had filed against the University of California, Berkeley: the university will have to pay YAF $70,000 to reimburse attorneys’ fees, rescind the unconstitutional “high-profile speaker policy," rescind the viewpoint-discriminatory...

After more than a year of litigation, the University of California, Berkeley, has settled a lawsuit with the Young Americas Foundation and the UC Berkeley College Republicans. Campus conservatives accused the university of bias in the process of bringing high-profile speakers to campus. The original...