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SMITH v. UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE

Civ. A. No. 6557.

300 F.Supp. 777 (1969)

Jim SMITH et al. v. UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE et al.

United States District Court E. D. Tennessee, N. D.

April 18, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard L. Hollow, Knoxville, Tenn., William M. Kunstler, Arthur Kinoy, New York City, Morton Stavis, Newark, N. J., Dennis J. Roberts, Harriet Van Tassel, Rita L. Murphy, William J. Bender, Newark, N. J., for plaintiffs.

H. H. McCampbell, Jr., Louis C. Woolf, Knoxville, Tenn., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM

ROBERT L. TAYLOR, Chief Judge.

Plaintiffs seek to enjoin officials of the University of Tennessee from enforcing rules which prohibit students from inviting as speakers for university sponsored programs persons who do not meet certain standards. Jurisdiction is based on Title 28 U.S.C. Sections 1331, 1343, 2201 and 2202, and Title 42 U.S.C. Sections 1981 and 1983.

Plaintiffs are primarily students and faculty of the defendant university...

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