Texas A&M to Stop Violating Our First Amendment Rights

In a win for free speech, Texas A&M University has agreed to remove all settings blocking or filtering comments critical of its canine muscular dystrophy experiments on dogs as part of a settlement of PETA’s First Amendment lawsuit. Our federal lawsuit challenged the university’s use of a filter on its Facebook page that automatically deleted visitor posts and comments if they contained words such as “PETA,” “cruelty,” “lab,” and other terms associated with our high-profile campaign against the school’s muscular dystrophy experiments on dogs. Texas A&M also agreed to pay us $75,000 in legal fees.