The University of Wisconsin-Madison will have to pay nearly $500,000 in legal costs incurred by a Catholic student group that sued over the university’s refusal to fund some of the group’s activities.
The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision a year ago that UW-Madison’s policy of turning down funding requests from student groups for student activities involving prayer, worship and proselytizing violates their First Amendment right to free speech. In March, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the UW-Madison’s appeal of the ruling.