December 1, 2000

U. of Wisconsin Student-Fees System Faces New Court Challenge

By PETER SCHMIDT

The mandatory-student-fee system at the University of Wisconsin, which survived one key battle before the U.S. Supreme Court, is now under legal assault from a new direction.

A U.S. district-court judge has cleared the way for opponents of the fee system to challenge its objectivity and fairness, in a lawsuit alleging that the system violates the First Amendment rights of students by forcing them to help finance groups whose views they find objectionable on

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