The day of the speech, hundreds of student protesters formed human chains, blocking the doors to the event, and staging sit-in protests. When Shapiro began his speech, a protestor pulled the fire alarm. After the speech ended, Shapiro was escorted out by campus police.[85] Three months after the CSULA incident, Young America's Foundation announced it was filing a lawsuit against the university (with Shapiro as one of the plaintiffs), claiming that the First and Fourteenth Amendment rights of the students were violated by Covino's attempted cancellation of the event, as well as the physical barricading of students from entering or leaving the event.[86]