LEE v. BOARD OF REGENTS OF STATE COLLEGES

No. 68-C-61.

306 F.Supp. 1097 (1969)

Jack K. LEE, Gordon W. Riley, and the Reverend Leonard R. Scharmach, Plaintiffs, v. The BOARD OF REGENTS OF STATE COLLEGES et al., William Lee Carter, James Demeter, Pennelope Muehl, Michael Nickodem, Dennis Thornton, Brian W. Townsend, Mary Mills, Janette Bohl, Joseph Hlavacek, Ronald Merrell, Donald L. Power, and Edwin E. Thele, William Armstrong, John Beilfuss, Ellen Dreger, James Frey, Lance Hill, Pamela Johnson, Hartley M. Masler, John McIntyre, Susan Santeler, David Soleau, Mary E. Struckmeyer, Thomas Watts, and Robert Zuck, Defendants.

United States District Court W. D. Wisconsin.

December 15, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis D. Gage, Jr., Janesville, Wis., Charles Hoornstra, Madison, Wis., for plaintiffs.

Robert W. Warren, Atty. Gen., Charles A. Bleck, Asst. Atty. Gen., Madison, Wis., for defendant Board of Regents.

Thomas Godfrey, Elkhorn, Wis., for individual defendants.


JAMES E. DOYLE, District Judge.

This is an action brought under the Civil Rights Act of 1871, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, in which plaintiffs seek a declaration that they have been deprived of rights secured to them by the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution. Jurisdiction of this court is asserted under 28 U.S.C. § 1343 and 28 U.S.C. § 2201.

Plaintiffs allege that under chapter 37 of the Wisconsin Statutes, the defendant...

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