United States Sixth Circuit

State university officials violated college students' First Amendment rights by confiscating and failing to distribute the college student yearbook, where university's policy and practice, nature of the publication, context, and it's expressive activity made the yearbook a limited public forum.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/30/2000
• Decided 01/05/2001
• Published 01/05/2001

Judges

• Before MARTIN, Chief Judge;  MERRITT, RYAN, BOGGS, NORRIS, SUHRHEINRICH, SILER, BATCHELDER, DAUGHTREY, MOORE, COLE, CLAY, and GILMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Winter R. Huff (argued and briefed), Law Offices of John G. Prather, Somerset, KY, D. Bruce Orwin (briefed), Somerset, KY, for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Richard M. Goehler, Frost & Jacobs, Cincinnati, OH, for Amicus Curiae Student Press Law Center., Ann K. Benfield, Louisville, KY, for Amici Curiae American Civil Liberties Union, American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky, American Association of University Professors, Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, National Campaign for the Freedom of Expression, National Coalition Against Censorship, National Council of Teachers of English., Michael J. Wahoske, Dorsey & Whitney, Minneapolis, MN, for Amici Curiae Society of Professional Journalists, American Society of Newspaper Editors, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, National Federation of Press Women.


• For Appellees:
  
• J. Guthrie True (argued and briefed), Johnson, Judy, True & Guarnieri, Frankfort, KY, for defendants-Appellees.