ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF WESTERN KENTUCKY U. v. DOWNING

No. 72-1894.

475 F.2d 1132 (1973)

ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Dero G. DOWNING, President of the Western Kentucky University et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided March 28, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas L. Hogan, Louisville, Ky., Robert Allen Sedler, Lexington, Ky., on brief, for plaintiffs-appellants.

J. David Francis, Bowling Green, Ky., William E. Bivin, Bowling Green, Ky., on brief, for defendants-appellees.

Before PHILLIPS, Chief Judge, PECK, Circuit Judge, and KENNEDY, District Judge.


PHILLIPS, Chief Judge.

The governing officials of Western Kentucky University at Bowling Green made a decision that the sponsoring by the University of a certain motion picture film and its showing on the campus under University auspices would be inappropriate. Accordingly, the University cancelled the booking contract which it previously had executed for the showing of the film. District Judge Rhodes Bratcher, after a comprehensive evidentiary hearing, found that...

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