SWORD v. FOX

No. 15391.

446 F.2d 1091 (1971)

Lewis H. SWORD et al., Appellees, v. James W. FOX et al., Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided July 1, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William G. Broaddus, Asst. Atty. Gen., of Virginia (Andrew P. Miller, Atty. Gen., of Virginia, D. Patrick Lacy, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., and James R. Sipe, Harrisonburg, Va., on brief), for appellants.

John C. Lowe, Charlottesville, Va. (Robert P. Dwoskin, and Lowe, Dwoskin & Gordon, Charlottesville, Va., on brief), for appellees.

Before BRYAN, BUTZNER and RUSSELL, Circuit Judges.


DONALD RUSSELL, Circuit Judge.

This is a class action, brought on behalf of all the students at Madison College, for a declaratory judgment that certain regulations governing demonstrations at such college were constitutionally invalid as overbroad and vague and as impermissible restraints on freedom of speech and assembly. Madison College is a State-supported institution, located at Harrisonburg, Virginia, with a student body of approximately 4,000, mostly women...

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