MIAMI -- A federal judge has struck down the heart of a law that would have banned state universities from organizing academic research trips to Cuba, calling it unconstitutional.
The law officially targeted any terrorist state but mostly affected travel to the communist island, located just 90 miles from the tip of Florida. In a ruling Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge Patricia Seitz upheld one aspect of the law: state money can't be used for the travel. Yet nearly all trips relied on private grants and only used nominal state funding to administer the grants, which the judge ruled was allowed.
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