11th Circuit crushes Florida’s ‘Stop WOKE Act’ at state universities

By: Jay Waagmeester

Outlets: Florida Phoenix

Published: July 7, 2026

Words: 1,624

Last Updated: 2 weeks ago


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Instead of the state determining what will be taught in university classrooms, students must be free to hear and consider even officially disfavored ideas presented to them by professors, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.

More than two years after oral arguments in a case challenging the 2022 law dubbed the Stop WOKE Act, two out of three judges on a U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit panel affirmed two lower courts’ rulings …

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