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September 25, 1998

What a Recent Court Ruling Means for Required Student Fees

By ROBERT M. O'NEIL

Mandatory student fees have drawn several legal challenges over the past two decades, with widely varying results. In the latest chapter of this litigation saga, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit last month struck down, on First Amendment grounds, the allocation of fees paid by aggrieved students at the University of Wisconsin at Madison to "organizations that engage in

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Federal Court Upholds U. of Oregon's Policy on Mandatory Student Fees - March 5, 1999
U.S. Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Case on Mandatory Student Fees at Public Colleges - April 9, 1999
Appeals Court Upholds Limits on Mandatory Student Fees at U. of Wisconsin - November 6, 1998
Colleges and States Ask High Court to Reverse Ruling on Student FeesMay Public Colleges Use Mandatory Student Fees to Finance Campus Groups? 3 Views - July 9, 1999
Court's Ruling Won't End Controversy Over Student Fees - April 7, 2000

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