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DICKSON v. SITTERSON

No. C-59-G-66.

280 F.Supp. 486 (1968)

Paul DICKSON, III, George E. Nicholson, III, Robert S. Powell, Jr., James A. Medford, Eunice H. Milton, John E. Greenbacker, Jr., Eric E. Van Loon, Ernest S. McCrary, Gary E. Waller, Stuart E. Matthews, John McSween, Henry N. Patterson, Jr., and Frank Wilkinson and Herbert Aptheker, Plaintiffs, v. J. Carlyle SITTERSON, Acting Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; William C. Friday, President of the University of North Carolina; the Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina, a Body Politic and Corporate Known and Distinguished by the Name of the "University of North Carolina," Defendants.

United States District Court M. D. North Carolina, Greensboro Division.

February 19, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McNeill Smith, Greensboro, N. C., for plaintiffs.

T. Wade Bruton, Atty. Gen., of North Carolina, Ralph Moody, Deputy Atty. Gen., of North Carolina, Andrew A. Vanore, Jr., Staff Attorney, Raleigh, N. C., and William T. Joyner, William T. Joyner, Jr., and James M. Kimzey, Raleigh, N. C., for defendants.

Daniel H. Pollitt, Chapel Hill, N. C., R. Mayne Albright, Raleigh, N. C., Lisbon C. Berry, Jr., Wilmington, N. C., Hugh G. Casey, Jr., Charlotte, N. C., Renn Drum, Jr., Winston-Salem, N. C., Charles F. Lambeth, Jr., Thomasville, N. C., James Mattocks, High Point, N. C., and William L. Thorp, Jr., Rocky Mount, N. C., for North Carolina Civil Liberties Union, amicus curiae.

William W. Van Alstyne and J. Francis Paschal, Durham, N. C., for The American Association of University Professors and The North Carolina Conference, amicus curiae.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judge, and STANLEY, and BUTLER, District Judges.

EDWIN M. STANLEY, District Judge.

The plaintiff seeks to declare unconstitutional and enjoin the enforcement of § 116-199 and § 116-200, General Statutes of North Carolina, statutes regulating the appearance of visiting speakers at State-supported colleges and universities. Declaratory relief is sought under 28 U.S.C. § 2201 and injunctive relief is sought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and 28 U.S.C. §§ 1343 and 2281. Since the proceeding involves...

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