Back in 2016, campus police stopped Christian student Chike Uzuegbunam from speaking about his faith or distributing Christian literature on campus.
The officers told the convert to Christianity that he needed to make an advance reservation to speak in one of two tiny campus “speech zones” that were only open a few hours a week. It was a demand the school repeatedly made.
A second Christian student, Joseph Bradford, decided not to speak about religion because of what happened to Uzuegbunam.
Both Chike and Bradford then sued certain college officials who enforced the college’s speech policies, arguing that such policies violated their First Amendment rights.
Last year, arguments for the case were heard by the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled 8-1 in favor of the Christian students.
Now five years later, Georgia Gwinnett College officials have agreed to settle the case, giving Uzuegbunam and Bradford the justice they were seeking all along.
ADF Senior Counsel Travis Barham said, “This settlement represents a victory not only for Chike and Joseph but also for many other students who wish to exercise their constitutionally protected freedoms on the campuses of Georgia’s public colleges and universities.”
Since the 2016 incident, college officials have also changed their policies on campus that had violated the former students’ First Amendment rights.