United States Second Circuit

In case involving a public college president's decision to cancel a student government election because of content published in a school newspaper, judgments dismissing certain defendants and granting remaining defendant summary judgment is vacated where factual issues exist with respect to the question of whether the college president is entitled to qualified immunity, thus it was inappropriate to grant summary judgment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/13/2007
• Published 07/13/2007

Judges

• Before:  JACOBS, Chief Judge, WALKER and CALABRESI, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ronald B. McGuire, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellants and Intervenors-Plaintiffs-Appellants., Joseph P. Esposito, Nicolas Jafarieh, Jonah E. McCarthy, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, Washington, DC;  Rex Heinke, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Los Angeles, CA;  S. Mark Goodman, Michael C. Hiestand, of counsel, Student Press Law Center, Arlington, VA, for Amicus Curiae Student Press Law Center.


• For Appellees:
  
• Marion R. Buchbinder, Assistant Solicitor General (Michael S. Belohlavek, Senior Counsel, of counsel), for Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York, for Defendants-Appellees Marlene Springer, Carol Jackson, Michael Silva, Winsome Alston, Sibi Geevarghese, W. Ann Reynolds, Robert E. Diaz, Roy Moskowitz, Michael Solomon, City University of New York, College of Staten Island, Student Election Review Committee of the College of Staten Island, Board of Trustees of the City University of New York, Marla Brinson, Matthew Goldstein, and Kathleen Galvez.