WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court turned away on Monday a conservative group's challenge on free speech grounds to Indiana University's policy for monitoring and reporting what the school considers to be bias-motivated incidents.

The Supreme Court said it won’t hear a challenge from conservative college students who say their freedom of speech is violated by an Indiana University program.

The Supreme Court declined to hear a case involving whether bias-response teams created at universities chill speech on campus.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a case on college programs which a conservative group claimed chills free speech and pushes students to be fearful to express an unpopular or controversial viewpoint.

Over the dissents of two justices, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to weigh a case about educational institutions' bias-reporting policies.

The advocacy group Speech First is trying to shut down "bias response" programs at Indiana University and elsewhere they say chill students' speech.

Dissenting Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito said the court ultimately will need to intervene on a controversial free speech issue at universities across the country.

The Justices decline to resolve a circuit split on campus ‘bias’ inquiries.

The lawsuit filed by student advocate group Speech First claims IU’s bias incident reporting system is too vague and silences the opinions of conservative students.

Its 2024 lawsuit against Indiana University President Pamela Whitten and other school officials sought to block enforcement of the bias incident reporting policy. The school's main campus is ...