April 25, 2003
Public-College Student Papers Have Broad First Amendment Rights, Court Rules
A federal appeals court ruled this month that a 1988 Supreme Court decision that gave wide latitude to high-school administrators to review and censor student publications does not apply to student newspapers at public colleges.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit made the ruling in finding that a dean at Governors State University does not have immunity from a lawsuit filed by the editors of The Innovator, the student newspaper at the Illinois institution. The editors
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