Young America's Foundation v. Stenger

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK YOUNG AMERICA’S FOUNDATION, et al., Plaintiffs, -against- 3:20-CV-0822 (LEK/ML) HARVEY STENGER, et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM-DECISION AND ORDER I. INTRODUCTION This case uniquely illuminates the delicate balance between freedom of speech and student protest on college campuses, as well as the effect of political polarization on this balance. As Justice Louis Brandeis wrote nearly a century ago: Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties . . . They believed…