{"71247":{"#nid":"71247","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Issues Statement on Recent Court Ruling","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAssociate Vice President for Communications \u0026amp; Marketing James Fetig issues statement on Sklar v. Clough:\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech will not be required to take any action as the result of today\u0027s court ruling.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWe are pleased that the plaintiffs were awarded no damages, and that the judge ruled in favor of the Georgia Tech free speech zone policy and use of student activity fees.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAs a result of today\u0027s ruling and the settlement of an earlier housing policy contention, Georgia Tech practices are exactly the same as before the suit was filed.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Institute disagrees with the ruling ordering a student organization to remove material from its Web site.  However, the matter is moot because that material was removed a year ago and has not been used by the student organization since.  Therefore, no action is required on the part of the Institute.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe state of Georgia does not intend to appeal the ruling.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Associate Vice President for Communications \u0026amp; Marketing James Fetig issues statement on Sklar v. Clough.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Tech issues statement on recent court ruling"}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2008-05-01 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:10","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-05-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-05-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71248":{"id":"71248","type":"image","title":"Tech Tower","body":null,"created":"1449177358","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:58","changed":"1475894632","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:52"}},"media_ids":["71248"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/newsroom\/assets\/pdf\/Sklar_Final_Order.pdf","title":"Sklar v. Clough Final Order"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1970","name":"Clough"},{"id":"2116","name":"court"},{"id":"170763","name":"sklar"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["matthew.nagel@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}