HOSTY v. CARTER

No. 01-4155.

412 F.3d 731 (2005)

Margaret L. HOSTY, Jeni S. Porche, and Steven P. Barba, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Patricia CARTER, Defendant-Appellant, and Governors State University, et al., Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided April 10, 2003.

Reargued January 8, 2004.

Decided June 20, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Margaret Hosty, Oak Lawn, IL, pro se.

Jeni Porche, Park Forest, IL, pro se.

Steven P. Barba, Oak Lawn, IL, pro se.

Mary E. Welsh (argued), Office of the Attorney General Civil Appeals Division, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.

Richard M. Goehler (argued), Frost Brown Todd, Cincinnati, OH, for Amicus Curiae.

Before FLAUM, Chief Judge, and POSNER, COFFEY, EASTERBROOK, RIPPLE, MANION, KANNE, ROVNER, WOOD, EVANS, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.


Reargued En Banc January 8, 2004.

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

Controversy began to swirl when Jeni Porche became editor in chief of the Innovator, the student newspaper at Governors State University. None of the articles concerned the apostrophe missing from the University's name. Instead the students tackled meatier fare, such as its decision not to renew the teaching contract of Geoffrey de Laforcade, the paper's faculty adviser.

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