July 18, 2003

Federal Appeals Court to Rehear Student-Newspaper Case

By JEFFREY R. YOUNG

A federal appeals court will reconsider an April ruling that college newspapers have far greater free-speech rights than high-school newspapers do. The ruling, in a case involving Governors State University, was made by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. But the full court granted a motion last month to throw out that decision, and all of the judges on the circuit will now hear the case.

At issue is whether a 1988 Supreme Court decision that

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