United States Tenth Circuit

In a suit by former editors of a daily newspaper affiliated with Kansas State University against school administrators alleging that the removal of the paper's advisor violated their First and Fourteenth Amendment rights, dismissal of the suit under Rule 12(b)(6) is vacated and remanded to the district court with instructions to dismiss as moot since the plaintiffs have graduated and no longer serve on the paper's board.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/26/2007
• Published 07/27/2007

Judges

• LUCERO, Circuit Judge., Before LUCERO, McCONNELL, and HOLMES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Patrick J. Doran, Patrick J. Doran, L.C., Kansas City, Missouri for the Plaintiffs-Appellants/Cross-Appellees., Cheryl G. Strecker, Senior Associate University Attorney, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas for the Defendants-Appellees/Cross-Appellants., S. Mark Goodman, Student Press Law Center, Arlington, Virginia, and Adam J. Biegel, Alston & Bird, LLP, Atlanta, Georgia, filed an Amici Curiae brief in support of Plaintiffs-Appellants/Cross-Appellees.