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A Texas Tech University law student is claiming that her First Amendment rights were violated after she was disciplined for making comments deemed \u201cunprofessional\u201d in the hours after the September assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n Ellie Fisher, a third-year law student, was found guilty of violating the Texas Tech Honor Code last month following an investigation into comments she was accused of making after Kirk\u2019s death. Fisher was the only law student who faced such an investigation, even though news of the shooting was widely discussed across the law school on Sept. 10.\u00a0<\/p>\n According to the lawsuit, Fisher engaged in several conversations about Kirk\u2019s death. <\/a>The filing claims Fisher commented that the wound appeared fatal. Additionally, she was in the proximity of other students who made comments such as \u201cCharlie Kirk was going to hell.\u201d\u00a0 <\/p>\n One month after the assassination, she was notified by the law school that she was under investigation for a possible honor code violation. The claims largely centered on the belief that Fisher, who founded the campus\u2019s NAACP chapter and has served in several leadership positions, acted in a celebratory manner in the law school\u2019s classrooms and clinic offices after Kirk was shot.<\/p>\n As noted in the filing, Fisher is Black, while the other students who discussed Kirk\u2019s death on campus but were not investigated by the Honor Council are white. The lawsuit also claims that university officials failed to investigate after Fisher reported that a racial slur<\/a> had been written on her car while parked on school property.\u00a0<\/p>\n In a decision handed down by the Honor Council last month, a panel of faculty members characterized Fisher\u2019s reaction to Kirk\u2019s death as overexuberant in a manner that caused other students to feel uncomfortable. Following the investigation, the council recommended a written reprimand be added to her school record, a disciplinary action that would have to be disclosed to the state bar association.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201c[Texas Tech University] faculty view Fisher\u2019s advocacy, distinctions and achievements as nothing more than evidence that Fisher is a loud-mouth, uppity Black woman whose viewpoints and zealous advocacy activism they despise,\u201d the lawsuit states. \u201cBy punishing Fisher for her thought crimes and speech as a private citizen on matters of public concern, Defendants betray the legacy of Charlie Kirk.\u201d<\/p>\n The lawsuit disputes claims that Fisher met the news of Kirk\u2019s death with glee, arguing that key individuals who were interviewed for the investigation testified that Fisher\u2019s behavior did not seem out of the ordinary or unprofessional. Those statements were ultimately left out of the report, which was used during the Honor Council\u2019s deliberations.\u00a0<\/p>\n The final narrative painted Fisher as a \u201cCharlie Kirk-hating fanatic\u201d rather than a student participating in a \u201cdiscussion of national news,\u201d the lawsuit states. The filing also claims that one faculty member in particular, Terri Morgeson, spearheaded the crackdown on Fisher\u2019s speech, although at the time of the discussions, she did not express discomfort with the subject matter.\u00a0<\/p>\n