By BRETT BARROUQUERE
Associated Press
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – A traveling evangelical preacher from Kentucky can continue challenging the University of Tennessee’s restrictions for on-campus speakers because the policy “threatens to chill free speech,” the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today.
The ruling restarts a lawsuit brought by John McGlone of Breeding, Ky., who is challenging the university’s requirements that speakers on campus have sponsorship and get the approval of school administrators.
Judge Boyce F. Martin, writing for the court, concluded that the regulations are vague and arbitrarily applied to speakers. Martin noted that different members of the university administration have applied the regulations in varying ways, sometimes to the detriment of the person seeking to speak on campus.