Free speech lawsuit goes to trial in Wichita

Hays Daily News: “A Mulvane woman who claims the city violated her free speech rights at a city council forum will get the opportunity to make her case in federal court . . . ‘We hope it sets the precedent that town officials must respect all viewpoints when they are giving access to people to a public forum, to the community,’ said Joel Oster, an attorney with Alliance Defense Fund in Leawood, Kan. ‘They cannot discriminate based upon one person’s views.’”