Federal judge denies injunction that would reinstate suspended UA publications

By: Andrea Tinker

Outlets: Alabama Reflector

Published: May 29, 2026

Words: 815

Last Updated: 1 month, 3 weeks ago

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A federal court last week declined to issue a preliminary injunction against the University of Alabama that would have reinstated two suspended student publications.

U.S. District Judge Edmund LaCour Jr., a former Alabama solicitor general, wrote in the opinion issued last Friday that UA’s decision to suspend Alice, a magazine targeted at women, and Nineteen Fifty-Six, which wrote on issues related to UA’s Black student community, did not parttake in viewpoint discrimination.

“UA retains authority …

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