Viewpoint and Race Discrimination Claim in COVID Relief Grants Can Go Forward
Free Speech Viewpoint and Race Discrimination Claim in COVID Relief Grants Can Go Forward Eugene Volokh | 7.29.2026 7:28 PM A short excerpt from the long opinion today in African People's Ed. & Defense Fund, Inc. v. Pinellas County, written by Eleventh Circuit Judge Kevin Newsom, joined by Judge Andrew Brasher and District Judge Paul Huck (S.D. Fla.): Florida nonprofit African People's Education and Defense Fund twice applied for COVID-relief grants from monies made available to Pinellas County by the federal government.
- ▪Free Speech Viewpoint and Race Discrimination Claim in COVID Relief Grants Can Go Forward Eugene Volokh | 7.29.2026 7:28 PM A short excerpt from the long opinion today in African People's Ed. & Defense Fund, Inc. v.
- ▪Pinellas County, written by Eleventh Circuit Judge Kevin Newsom, joined by Judge Andrew Brasher and District Judge Paul Huck (S.D.
- ▪Fla.): Florida nonprofit African People's Education and Defense Fund twice applied for COVID-relief grants from monies made available to Pinellas County by the federal government.
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Free Speech Viewpoint and Race Discrimination Claim in COVID Relief Grants Can Go Forward Eugene Volokh | 7.29.2026 7:28 PM A short excerpt from the long opinion today in African People's Ed. & Defense Fund, Inc. v. Pinellas County, written by Eleventh Circuit Judge Kevin Newsom, joined by Judge Andrew Brasher and District Judge Paul Huck (S.D. Fla.): Florida nonprofit African People's Education and Defense Fund twice applied for COVID-relief grants from monies made available to Pinellas County by the federal government. The Pinellas County Board of Commissioners initially approved APEDF's first grant request but later revoked that approval; the Board denied the group's second grant application outright.
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