(Maryland Matters) University of Maryland student activists on Tuesday made good on their threat to sue the university after administrators blocked demonstrations on campus planned for the Oct. 7 anniversary of the bloody Hamas attack on Israel, which has led to a wider war in Gaza.
The group University of Maryland Students for Justice in Palestine filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, seeking an injunction that would bar the university from canceling the event. The lawsuit, which asserts that the student groups’ First Amendment rights have been violated, specifically targets the University System of Maryland Board of Regents, the University of Maryland at College Park and Darryll J. Pines, the university president.
