The University of of Massachusetts has settled a lawsuit over a decades-old policy on the Amherst campus that a student group said limited its free speech.
A chapter of Young Americans for Liberty filed the federal suit in January over a regulation that said speeches and rallies with microphones during class hours were limited to between noon and 1 p.m.
"It was meant to limit disruption to classes due to the amplified sound," Mary Detloff, a UMass Amherst spokeswoman, said in a statement. "The Board of Trustees agreed to rescind the policy, since it is rarely, if ever, enforced and could be misinterpreted as a restriction on free speech."
The plaintiffs' attorney, Caleb Dalton with Alliance Defending Freedom, said that's exactly the problem.