University of Washington professor Stuart Reges was exercising free speech when he parodied his employer’s official statement that the land encompassing the Seattle school belongs to local indigenous people, federal judges have determined.
The U.S. Ninth Circuit ruled in a 2–1 decision Dec. 19 that the university violated Reges’ First Amendment Rights when they punished him for including on his course syllabus a satirical take on the school’s official land acknowledgement statement.
