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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 Iowa State Executives Appeal Free Speech-Marijuana Logo Case 🌿Iowa State Executives Appeal Free Speech-Marijuana Logo Case
Iowa State University administrators are appealing a federal judge's ruling that they violated the free speech rights of student members of a pro-marijuana group by barring them from using the university logos on T-shirts.
Attorneys for ISU President Steven Leath, Senior Vice President Warren Madden and two other administrators notified the court Wednesday of their appeal to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
U.S. District Judge James Gritzner had issued an order on Jan. 22 granting members of the ISU chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws a permanent injunction blocking university administrators from using a trademark policy to prevent the group from printing shirts depicting the school mascot and a marijuana leaf.
Gritzner determined that the university administrators put unique burdens on the students and the group's political expression, violating their First Amendment free speech rights.
Students Erin Furleigh and Paul Gerlich, former presidents...
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