United States Second Circuit

Administrators at state-run college have qualified immunity for disciplining a professor for conducting a classroom exercise, initiated for legitimate pedagogical purposes, where students uttered a series of vulgar, sexually explicit words and phrases.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/29/2001
• Published 11/29/2001

Judges

• Before:  NEWMAN and CABRANES, Circuit Judges;  and UNDERHILL, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Robert H. Easton, Asst. Solicitor Gen., New York, N.Y. (Eliot Spitzer, N.Y. State Att'y Gen., Michael S. Belohlavek, Dep. Solicitor Gen., Marion R. Buchbinder, Asst. Solicitor Gen., New York, N.Y., on the brief), for defendants-appellants., Laura A. Menninger, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York, N.Y., on the brief, for plaintiff-appellee.