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PICKINGS v. BRUCE

No. 19881.

430 F.2d 595 (1970)

Earnest PICKINGS et al., Appellants, v. Imon E. BRUCE et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

August 6, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Burl C. Rotenberry, of Walker, Rotenberry, Kaplan, Lavey & Hollingsworth, Little Rock, Ark., for appellants; John P. Sizemore, Little Rock, Ark., and Jack Greenberg and W. Haywood Burns, New York City, on the brief.

G. Ross Smith, Little Rock, Ark., for appellees; Robert V. Light and Herschel H. Friday, Little Rock, Ark., on the brief.

Michael Nussbaum, Surrey, Karasik, Green & Hill, Washington, D. C., amici curiae.

Before VOGEL, HEANEY and BRIGHT, Circuit Judges.

HEANEY, Circuit Judge.

This appeal concerns the right of college administrators to sanction a student organization, its officers and faculty advisors, for writing a letter to an off-campus church questioning its policies on integration and for refusing to accede to a request of the college administrators to cancel a speaking invitation extended by the organization.

The events which form the basis of this appeal occurred on the campus of Southern State College...

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