{"id":5982,"date":"2025-10-16T02:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T02:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/5982\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T02:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T02:20:07","slug":"federal-judge-issues-temporary-injunction-on-new-texas-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/5982\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal judge issues temporary injunction on new Texas law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 On Oct. 14, U.S. District Judge David A. Ezra issued a temporary injunction against parts of Texas\u2019 new law that limits expression on campuses.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Texas System\u2019s restrictions on expression, including overnight activities, speakers, sounds and drums, during the semester\u2019s last two weeks will be suspended by the injunction.<\/p>\n<p>In the lawsuit, Ezra argues that the law goes against students\u2019 First Amendment rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlaintiffs allege that the Overnght Expression Ban and End-of-Term Bans threaten their protected expression,\u201d Ezra wrote.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/tx\/south-texas-el-paso\/news\/2025\/09\/04\/lawsuit-aims-to-block-a-law-restricting-free-speech-at-public-texas-universities-after-10-p-m--\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">A lawsuit was filed on Sept. 3<\/a> by The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) \u201con behalf of student musicians, journalists, political organizers, and religious students.\u201d The lawsuit aimed to prevent the enforcement of Senate Bill 2972.<\/p>\n<p>SB 2972, which imposes a ban on \u201cexpressive activities\u201d at public universities, went into effect on Sept. 1. The bill bans the activities between the hours of 10 p.m. and 8 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The new law, according to FIRE, will grant universities the right to penalize students at night for activities such as wearing political hats, writing an op-ed, attending candlelight vigils and more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis law gives campus administrators a blank check to punish speech, and that authority will inevitably be used to target unpopular speech,\u201d said FIRE attorney Adam Steinbaugh. \u201cAdministrators have plenty of ways to prevent disruptive conduct that do not involve such a broad censorship mandate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SB 2972, passed in the regular session this year, reversed a 2019 Texas law about free speech on campuses.<\/p>\n<p>The full injunction can be found below.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 On Oct. 14, U.S. District Judge David A. Ezra issued a temporary injunction against parts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1658,2160,132,134,133,102,2161,223,287,82,27],"class_list":["post-5982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-app-top-stories","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-dallas","tag-kelsey-leffingwell","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-san-antonio","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}