State Ban on Cuba Travel Unconstitutional

A federal judge struck down part of a 2006 Florida law banning faculty from traveling for research purposes to Cuba and other countries labeled as “terrorist states” by the US State Department. The ruling came in a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of Florida International University’s faculty senate and six professors at several Florida universities. District Court Judge Patricia Seitz ruled that the law’s prohibition on the use of private funds—and not just state funds—for such travel was unconstitutional.

See more information on restrictions on scholarly exchange with Cuba. (9/3)