{"id":240853,"date":"2026-04-21T20:35:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/240853\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T20:35:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:35:06","slug":"judge-denies-university-of-florida-college-republicans-request-for-preliminary-injunction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/240853\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge denies University of Florida College Republicans\u2019 request for preliminary injunction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) \u2014 A federal judge denied a request from the University of Florida College Republicans for a preliminary injunction to postpone the university\u2019s decision to disband the group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Judge Mark Walker ruled the group did not meet its burden for the preliminary injunction. The case can still proceed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/2026\/03\/16\/uf-college-republicans-files-suit-block-university-florida-deactivating-student-group\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/2026\/03\/16\/uf-college-republicans-files-suit-block-university-florida-deactivating-student-group\/\">UF College Republicans files suit to block University of Florida from deactivating student group<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">UF <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/2026\/03\/14\/university-florida-deactivate-college-republicans-chapter-after-state-group-disbanding\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/2026\/03\/14\/university-florida-deactivate-college-republicans-chapter-after-state-group-disbanding\/\">announced last month<\/a> that the group would dissolve after a student was accused of doing a Nazi salute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The judge ordered all discovery be submitted by May 26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/newsletter\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCJB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) \u2014 A federal judge denied a request from the University of Florida College Republicans for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,106538,106540,106537,106539,106536],"class_list":["post-240853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-judge-mark-walker","tag-nazi-salute-accusation","tag-preliminary-injunction-denied","tag-uf-student-group-disbanded","tag-university-of-florida-college-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}