Gov. Wes Moore (D-MD) expressed his opposition to the decision of a federal court to allow a pro-Palestinian event at the University of Maryland on Oct. 7. The UMD branch of Students for Justice in Palestine was granted the right to demonstrate on First Amendment grounds after the university shut down the event.

A federal judge ruled the University of Maryland must allow pro-Palestinian students to hold an interfaith vigil Oct. 7, the day marking one year since the Hamas attack in Israel. The group Students for Justice in Palestine sued UMD for civil rights violations after the school banned all student-run events for Oct.

A student group took the University of Maryland to court and won, with the court ruling that administrators had violated Students for Justice in Palestine's First Amendment rights by canceling the group's vigil scheduled for Oct.