[Opinion] First Amendment Challenge to Suspension from University of Texas for Pro-Palestinian Protest Can Go Forward

First Amendment Challenge to Suspension from University of Texas for Pro-Palestinian Protest Can Go Forward

From today's opinion by Judge Robert Pitman (W.D. Tex.) in Qaddumi v. Hartzell: Qaddumi challenges his suspension from the University of Texas at Austin ("UT"), where Defendants currently work or previously worked as administrators, as a violation of his constitutional rights. Qaddumi was involved in planning a protest, to include a "walk out of class," "guest speaker," and two "teach-in[s]", about ongoing violence in Gaza in April 2024 as a mem…