7th Circuit Disputes Threat of NCAA Sanctions in Free Speech Case

In a majority decision, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a district court ruling and found that an email sent by a university chancellor to faculty, which warned faculty not to contact prospective student-athletes about the university’s alleged racial insensitivity, violated the faculty’s First Amendment rights to free speech.   In his email, University of Illinois Chancellor Michael Aiken wrote that such communications risked exposing the university and its athletic d