A 2-1 ruling from the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found Florida's assertion it could control the speech of its employees to be "a breathtaking assertion of power to ban unpopular ideas from public discourse in the very places the state's own statutes recognize as centers of inquiry."

Florida’s Republican-controlled legislature passed the Individual Freedom Act, commonly known as the Stop WOKE Act, in 2022.

A Trump-appointed judge ruled against Gov. Ron DeSantis' Stop WOKE Act, leaving Florida’s college speech limits blocked as a Supreme Court appeal looms.