SOGLIN v. KAUFFMAN

No. 67-C-141.

295 F.Supp. 978 (1968)

Paul R. SOGLIN, Henry W. Haslach, David L. Goldman, William T. Kaplan, Richard J. Scheidenhelm, Robert Swacker, James McFadden, Daniel Bernstein, Robert S. Cohen, William G. Simons, Students for a Democratic Society (Madison Chapter), individually and on behalf of those similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. Joseph F. KAUFFMAN, individually and as Dean of Student Affairs at the University of Wisconsin (Madison Campus); Ralph Hanson, individually and as Chief of the University of Wisconsin (Madison Campus) Department of Protection and Security, and as a representative of a class known as police officers of the University of Wisconsin; the Regents of the University of Wisconsin; Wilbur Emery, individually and as Chief of Police of the City of Madison, Wisconsin, and as a representative of a class known as police officers of the City of Madison; James Boll, individually and as District Attorney of Dane County, Wisconsin; Bronson C. La Follette, individually and as Attorney General of the State of Wisconsin; their Agents, Assistants, Successors, Employees, Attorneys and all those acting in concert with them or at their direction, Defendants.

United States District Court W. D. Wisconsin.

December 13, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Percy L. Julian, Jr., Michael A. Reiter, Madison, Wis., William M. Kunstler, Arthur Kinoy, New York City, Dennis Roberts, Harriet Van Tassel, Morton Stavis, Newark, N. J., for plaintiffs.

Bronson C. La Follette, Atty. Gen. of Wis., Arlen C. Christenson, Deputy Atty. Gen., Thomas A. Lockyear, Asst. Atty. Gen., Madison, Wis., for defendants, Kauffman, Hanson, and Board of Regents.

John P. Koberstein, Madison, Wis., for defendant, Boll.

William A. Jansen, Asst. City Atty., Madison, Wis., for defendant, Emery.


JAMES E. DOYLE, District Judge.

This opinion deals with that branch of this action in which plaintiffs seek declaratory and injunctive relief with respect to Chapter 11.02 of the Laws and Regulations of the University of Wisconsin, and with respect to disciplinary proceedings based upon alleged "misconduct" rather than upon alleged violations of any express regulation or statute.

Plaintiffs are alleged to be ten...

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