<p style="text-align: justify;">May 16, 2011, 12:37 pm. A Florida law imposing tight limits on academic travel to Cuba could end up on the U.S. Supreme Court’s docket. The court today invited the acting U.S. solicitor general to file a brief expressing the federal government’s stance on the case, which challenges a 2006 law that restricts students, faculty members, and researchers at the state’s public colleges and universities from traveling to Cuba and four other countries that the U.S. government considers terrorist states. An appeals court ruled in 2010 that Florida could not regulate travel using private funds but that it could place limits on those underwritten by taxpayer dollars. President Obama recently eased national restrictions on student and scholar travel to Cuba.
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