SILL v. PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY

Civ. No. 70-325.

315 F.Supp. 125 (1970)

Geoffrey SILL, Alan C. Cunningham, Scott E. Gibbs, Kenneth R. Cooper, Steven D. Weiss, Walter T. Champion, Jr., John M. Forcey, Kenneth A. Karpovich, Diane K. Lehnig, Caesar J. Muccari, David S. Oswald, and M. Dean Ross, Plaintiffs, Richard A. Parkany, Joseph Schneller, John P. Yanak, Ellen Keyser and Paul Kostrow, Intervening Plaintiffs, v. The PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, Its Board of Trustees, G. Albert Shoemaker, Individually and as President of its Board of Trustees, H. Thomas Hallowell, Jr., Individually and as Vice President of its Board of Trustees, and Eric A. Walker, Individually and as its President, Defendants.

United States District Court, M. D. Pennsylvania.

August 3, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas K. Gilhool, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiffs.

McNees, Wallace & Nurick, G. Thomas Miller, Clyde W. McIntyre, Harrisburg, Pa., Delbert McQuaide, William Schwartz, State College, Pa., for defendants.


OPINION

NEALON, District Judge.

In this action, seventeen students at The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), who received disciplinary punishment ranging from two years probation to expulsion as a result of a campus disturbance in April, 1970, request this Court to order defendants, Penn State and its Board of Trustees, to restore them to their full status as students. Presently before the Court is a...

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