Like High Schools, Public Colleges Can Censor Student Newspapers, Federal Court Rules

A 1988 Supreme Court decision that gave high-school administrators the authority to review and censor student publications is applicable to student newspapers at public colleges, a federal appeals court ruled last week.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit made the ruling in finding that a dean at Governors State University had immunity from a lawsuit filed by the editors of The Innovator, the student newspaper at the Illinois institution.

The student editors had

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