For two students who sued the University Tuesday, time is running out to make their case.

But plaintiff Adi Neuman said he is confident the case will be in court tomorrow, in time for a judge to either stop this weekend's Second National Student Conference on the Palestine Solidarity Movement or ban its speakers from campus.

Deborah Schlussel, the attorney representing LSA senior Neuman and LSA sophomore Richard Dorfman, said she will attempt today to file a motion for a hearing in Washtenaw County Circuit Court. Whether she is successful depends on whether Judge Melinda Morris agrees to hear the motion by tomorrow, she said.

Dorfman and Neuman filed their lawsuit in an effort to prevent speakers they believe will incite violence on campus from attending the conference.

University General Marvin Krislov said the University considered concerns about the conference. "We have elected to stand by the principles of openness, tolerance, and robust debate that are central to our educational mission," he said.

The original motion gave the University 21 days to respond, University spokeswoman Julie Peterson said. But she added the defendants would have to make arguments immediately if a motion is filed today.

Peterson said if the conference proceeds as expected, heightened security will accompany it, including a Department of Public Safety presence.

"We certainly have as our utmost concern the safety of our campus community," she said.

Dorfman stressed he does not oppose the conference organizers' right to meet and discuss divestment. Even if they advocated the destruction of Israel at the conference, he said they would be protected under the First Amendment.

His problem is instead with the speaker's list, full of people he said will provoke violence on campus.

"If conference organizers would agree to dis-invite the speakers listed in the complaint, we would drop the lawsuit immediately," he said.

But since that won't happen, the University must step in, Dorfman said.

"The only way to shut down the incitement of violence is to shut down the conference," he said.

Eric Reichenberger, a spokesman for Students Allied for Freedom and Equality, said the conference will go on as scheduled but declined to comment on the lawsuit.

The lawsuit's brief outlines the danger each speaker poses, and gives the most space to arguing that the University should ban Sami Al-Arian from campus.

Describing Al-Arian as "the founder of and a ... member of the terrorist group Islamic Jihad," the brief claims he and other speakers have made anti-Semitic statements and advocated violence against Jews and Americans.

According to the brief, the previous conference held at the University of California at Berkeley led to several violent incidents directed at Jewish students.

Peterson said University officials have discussed the upcoming conference with administrators at Berkeley.

"They indicated that the conference itself occurred peacefully," she said, but added she is unaware if it provoked later violence.

Wayne State University Law Prof. Robert Sedler said the lawsuit has no chance of succeeding because the University has handled the conference correctly. In fact, denying the conference would put the University legally at risk because it would violate organizers' free speech rights, he said.

"You do not undercut the First Amendment by throwing out the label terrorism," Sedler said.

Larry Deitch (D-Bingham Farms), chairman of the University Board of Regents, said he is confident of a legal victory.

"The conference was organized by a recognized student group, and despite the fact that I am in vehement disagreement with ideas expressed by its organizers, I believe that principles of academic freedom and First Amendment rights require that the conference go on," he said.