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Professor John Hill discussed a potential lawsuit brewing over a Carmel High School decision to not allow a pro-life student group to display posters promoting their message. The story appears on the Indianapolis Star’s website December 14.

A conservative legal organization is threatening to sue over the school’s decision to rescind Carmel Teens for Life’s ability to display its posters in the high school.

In the news story, Professor Hill notes that the Supreme Court has ruled against public schools in similar "viewpoint discrimination" matters. "The worst kind of discrimination under the First Amendment is viewpoint discrimination," he said in the story. "If they permit groups to put up posters generally, but single out this one group individually, they can't do that." Public schools "cannot pick and choose which viewpoints get heard."

Professor Hill is the author of After the Natural Law: How the Classical Worldview Supports Our Modern and Moral Political Values, which was published in March by Ignatius Press. He holds a J.D. and a doctorate in philosophy, both of which he received from Georgetown University. In addition to being a professor of law at IU McKinney, where he teaches constitutional law, civil procedure, torts, jurisprudence and ethical and legal issues at the end of life, he also is a Grimes Fellow, and an adjunct professor of philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at IUPUI.