COLUMBIA — A Kansas City district court on Friday ordered the University of Missouri to allow Mizzou Students for Justice in Palestine to participate in this year’s homecoming parade.

The ruling comes after the student organization sued UM System President Mun Choi for denying the group from participating in the 2024 parade. Arguments began in the lawsuit on Tuesday.

According to court documents, Choi personally denied MSJP’s application, citing safety concerns with the group’s former president and campus violence elsewhere in the country last year.

MSJP's application to walk in the 2025 parade was denied on the basis that it did not adhere to newly established Homecoming parade policies that exclude political expression. The policy allows only approved participants and denie

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