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SCOTUS revives suit against Georgia college

The US Supreme Court is reviving a lawsuit brought by a Georgia college student who sued school officials after being prevented from distributing Christian literature on campus.

The high court sided 8–1 with the student, Chike Uzuegbunam, and against Georgia Gwinnett College. Uzuegbunam has since graduated, and the public school in Lawrenceville, Georgia, has changed its policies. Lower courts said the case was moot, but the Supreme Court disagreed.

Groups across the political spectrum, including the American Civil Liberties Union, had said that the case is important to ensuring that people whose constitutional rights were violated can continue their cases even when governments re­verse the policies they were challenging.