A federal judge has ruled the University of Wisconsin does not have to provide funding for a conservative group. Collegians for a Conservative Tomorrow filed the suit in 2009 after the group was denied funding by the university, due to their conservative views.
The university made the shift to what they call a “viewpoint neutral” basis for fee allocation. There may have been a flaw with that system, though:
But CFACT pointed to the fact that WISPIRG (Wisconsin Public Interest Research Group) received funding. CFACT said that it is essentially identical to WISPIRG, but WISPIRG is politically liberal and CFACT is politically conservative.
U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman wrote in his opinion that since the lawsuit was filed, WISPIRG has also lost its funding.
“If in the future the defendants make funding decisions that result in disparate treatment of CFACT and WISPIRG, the affected students can bring a fresh suit for injunctive relief,” the judge wrote.
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