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Conservative Student Journalist’s Lawsuit Against U of I Proceeds to Federal Court | BizPac Review

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BizPac Review: In November 2017, three student journalists were disciplined for reporting on a campus protest that resulted in a graduate student instructor assaulting the journalists and damaging one’s property. After the altercation, the students were issued restraining orders in an effort to prevent them from reporting on anarcho-communist instructor, Tariq Khan. The case, which is a First Amendment lawsuit, accuses the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign of infringing on the rights of the student journalists, and is now headed to Federal court.

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The federal lawsuit, which names multiple university officials as defendants, was filed on behalf of three Campus Reform correspondents on April 9 after they were disciplined for reporting on a campus protest that resulted in a graduate student instructor assaulting the journalists and damaging one’s property. Two of the students, Joel Valdez and Blair Nelson, were the targets of Khan’s rage during the altercation, while the third student, Andrew Minik, merely reported on the incident for Campus Reform.

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Source: Conservative Student Journalist’s Lawsuit Against U of I Proceeds to Federal Court | BizPac Review

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