Free speech zones had been a staple of Western Michigan University’s speech codes long enough for YAL Chapter President Evan Oudekerk’s protests of them routine. Oudekerk and his fellow chapter members rolled out several giant free speech balls around the Michigan campus through the Fall semester of 2018, collecting petition signatures from students. These petitions...Read More

In what has arguably been Young Americans for Liberty’s most highly covered case, Kellogg Community College finally agreed to settle the lawsuit for $55,000. In the fall of 2016 YAL activist, and KCC student, Shelly Gregoire was distributing pocket Constitutions with Isaac Edikauskas, and Nathan Berning. The trio were confronted by the administration on numerous...Read More

In October 2013, the University of Michigan student government denied the university’s YAL chapter funding for a speech by Jennifer Gratz, the winning plaintiff in a 2003 lawsuit against the university for its weighing of applicants’ race in admissions. In December, YAL filed suit against the University of Michigan with the help of Alliance Defending...Read More