Federal judge denies UA students’ preliminary injunction request in magazine lawsuit

Editions of Alice Magazine, Nineteen Fifty-Six and The Crimson White sit in a stand in the Office of Student Media.

Federal judge denies UA students’ preliminary injunction request in magazine lawsuit. Editions of Alice Magazine, Nineteen Fifty-Six and The Crimson White sit in a stand in the Office of Student Media. A federal judge denied a preliminary injunction request against The University of Alabama in the lawsuit over the closure of Alice and Nineteen-Fifty Six magazines last Friday. The injunction, if granted, would have forced the University to reopen the shuttered magazines. The ruling was condemned by the Student Press Law Center, an organization representing student journalists. In the ruling Judge Edmond LaCour wrote that the student plaintiffs were unlikely to prevail in their claim, citing the University’s right to control its own speech, the forum doctrine and court precedent on content-neutral restrictions of free speech. LaCour said th...