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NORTON v. DISCIPLINE COMMITTEE OF EAST TENN. STATE UNIV.

No. 19107.

419 F.2d 195 (1969)

Marietta NORTON, Oscar Heffner, Richard Crawford, Joseph Garber, David Coker, George Ball, Robert McCall and Mike Haga, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The DISCIPLINE COMMITTEE OF EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY, Mack Davis, Ella Ross, Dorman Stout, Willene Paxton, Joan Dressel, John Mercer, Phil Thomas, East Tennessee State University, Delos P. Culp and The State Board of Education of and for The State of Tennessee, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

November 28, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Karen D. Ennis, Nashville, Tenn., for appellants; Charles Morgan, Jr., Reber F. Boult, Jr., Atlanta, Ga., on brief; Melvin L. Wulf, Eleanor Holmes Norton, New York City, of counsel.

Thomas E. Fox, Deputy Atty. Gen., Nashville, Tenn., for appellee.

Before WEICK, O'SULLIVAN and CELEBREZZE, Circuit Judges.

WEICK, Circuit Judge.

Appellants, students of East Tennessee State University, were suspended by the University's Discipline Committee after a hearing on charges of distributing on the campus "material of a false, seditious and inflammatory nature." This material was calculated to cause a disturbance and disruption of school activities and to bring about ridicule of and contempt for the school authorities. The students perfected an administrative appeal to the President...

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