October 12, 2007

Supreme Court Turns Down Preacher's Speech Case

By SARA LIPKA

Brother Jim will not have the ears of the nation's highest court.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined last week to hear the case of the evangelical preacher, James G. Gilles, who calls himself Brother Jim and whose speech Vincennes University restricted to a small part of its campus in 2002.

Officials at Vincennes, a public institution in Indiana, had found the preacher on the campus and told him he needed to file paperwork to engage in "solicitation" there. The permit the

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