Gregorio Olivares Gutierrez was an editor of The Mercury, a student newspaper at the University of Texas at Dallas, before he was placed on a two-year deferred suspension after his school deemed that his editorial decisions constituted "discriminatory harassment."
This all started when UT Dallas Hillel president Jade Steinberg sent The Mercury a letter about campus antisemitism and the Israel-Palestine conflict. Gutierrez thought the letter lacked credible sources, so he added a disclaimer to its publication stating that the letter "does not meet the journalistic standards of The Mercury" and should be treated as opinion rather than news. A day after the piece went live, Steinberg complained, leading to Gutierrez's suspension. Gutierrez filed a lawsuit last week, alleging that the school violated his First Amendment rights.
