The California State University (CSU) system and CSU San Marcos agreed to pay $243,000 to settle a lawsuit after a district court judge ruled that the public university unfairly treated a group of student activists because of their pro-life viewpoints.
CSU’s board of trustees and the student government at CSU San Marcos signed an agreement (pdf) with the campus chapter of Students for Life (SFL) and its former president Nathan Apodaca to settle the 2017 lawsuit. According to the settlement terms, CSU will pay $240,000 in legal fees to the students’ lawyers at the conservative advocacy group Alliance Defending Freedom and $3,000 in damages to SFL. University officials also pledged to adopt “viewpoint neutral” standards when making funding decisions in the future.
