Texas appeals preliminary injunction blocking University of Texas campus speech rules

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AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Texas Office of Attorney General on Nov. 4 appealed a preliminary injunction granted by a federal judge last month in a lawsuit against the University of Texas System.

The injunction was issued Oct. 14. In his order, District Court Judge Alan Ezra called the policies, made in response to Texas’ Campus Protection Act (SB 2972) "ambiguous."

"Granting administrators and law enforcement discretion to determine what qualifies as ‘disruptive’ creates a substantial risk that the policy will be weaponized against speech with which they disagree, irrespective of any actual disruption,” Ezra wrote in his order.

Both parties agreed to put the case on hold until the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals rules on the preliminary injunction. Once it does, the district court will resume its consideration of the case.

As of Monday morning, online court records do not yet return a result for the appeal.