Appeals Court Backs Fee System

A federal appeals court ruled last week that the University of Wisconsin System has developed a largely "viewpoint neutral" way of distributing funds from mandatory student fees to student groups on the Madison campus.

The decision reverses most of a 2001 ruling by a district court that had struck down the fee system as an infringement of the First Amendment rights of students who objected to supporting certain groups.

In the latest decision, a three-judge panel of the U.S.

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