“The ACLU of Michigan and the Sugar Law Center for Economic & Social Justice filed a federal lawsuit Monday against the University of Michigan, alleging the school has unconstitutionally banned protesters from its Ann Arbor campus in an effort to silence dissent. …

Liz Jacob, an attorney with the Sugar Law Center, said UM is using trespass bans “to target, attack, and silence the speech of protesters.”

“The threat of effectively being barred from classes, suspended from the university, kept from working on campus or even walking the grounds constitutes an extreme attempt to quell free speech and due process rights that are protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments,” Jacob said. “We believe that it is critical to bring forward this lawsuit today to put an end to the University of Michigan’s unconstitutional policies, which wrongly deny people their rights to free speech and due process.” Steve Neavling at the Detroit Metro Times

See also New Lawsuit Claims U-M violated protestors constitutional rights. Detroit Free Press.

A copy of the complaint is available here.