by Nicholas Gutteridge and Jessica Priest, The Texas Tribune

September 3, 2025

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A federal judge in Austin has temporarily blocked key parts of Texas' new law limiting expression on campuses, halting the University of Texas System's enforcement of a ban on overnight expression and limits on speakers, amplified sounds and drums during the last two weeks of the semester.

U.S. District Judge David A. Ezra on Oct. 14 said the student groups who brought the case are likely to succeed on their claims that Senate Bill 2972 violates their First Amendment rights and would be irreparably harmed without relief. He wrote that the clause added to the law by the Legislatur

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