Shippensburg University: Speech Code Litigation

FIRE's Legal Network filed a sixty-three page complaint against Shippensburg University as part of the FIRE's Speech Code Litigation project on behalf of two unnamed students who wished to challenge its legality. At trial, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania issued a preliminary injunction ordering the President of Shippensburg to cease enforcement of certain aspects of its speech code. Four years later, many of the policies that the court struck down mysteriously made their way back into policy. The Alliance Defense Fund filed suit on behalf of several students at Shippensburg in May 2008, and the outcome is still pending, where it is expected that the court will issue another injunction compelling performance with the 2004 order.