United States Second Circuit
Amidon v. Student Ass'n of the State Univ. of N.Y. at Albany, 05-6623, 05-6664, 06-0117
Defendant Student Association violated the First Amendment by using an advisory student referendum to determine how to allocate funds from a mandatory student activity fee among student organizations.
Appellate Information
- Decided 11/20/2007
- Published 11/20/2007
Judges
- JOHN M. WALKER, JR., Circuit Judge:, Before: WALKER and B.D.PARKER, Circuit Judges, and CASTEL, District Judge.
Court
- United States Second Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Thomas Marcelle, Law Office of Thomas Marcelle, Albany, NY, for Eric Amidon, Winston Brownlow, and Collegian Action Leadership League of New York., Lewis B. Oliver, Jr., Oliver & Oliver, Albany, NY, for the Student Association of the State University of New York at Albany., Michael B. De Leeuw (Alexander R. Sussman, Darcy M. Goddard, Michael F. Savicki, Sloan S.J. Johnston, Alexis Karteron, on the brief), Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, New York, NY, for New York Public Interest Research Group., David C. Vladeck, Georgetown University Law Center, Institute for Public Representation, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae Connecticut Public Interest Research Group.