Supreme Court Declines To Decide Constitutionality Of College Bias Response Teams

The U.S. Supreme Court has decided against hearing a case about college bias response teams, dismissing a case that was brought before them involving Virginia Tech.

Speech First is a "group formed to advocate for students’ free speech rights," and it recently petitioned the Supreme Court to hear an appeal after "a lower court tossed its lawsuit over a Virginia Tech school policy enabling students to anonymously report bias incidents."

On Monday, the Supreme Court vacated the lower court's ruling and sent the case back to the lower court with one demand:

Dismiss the lawsuit as moot.

Not everyone agreed, however.

"In my view, the party seeking vacatur has not established equitable entitlement to that remedy," Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in a dissenting opinion.

"I have serious concerns that bias response policies, such as Virginia Tech’s, objectively chill students’ speech," Clarence Thomas said in a separate dissent.

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