The University of California Hastings College of the Law cannot be required to recognize and fund a religious student group that discriminates in the selection of members and officers, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Tuesday.
Just a week after hearing arguments in the case, the 9th Circuit issued a one-paragraph, unpublished order that Hastings’ open membership rule prohibiting discrimination based on religion or sexual orientation of members is “viewpoint neutral and reasonable.”
