OLSON v. STATE BD. FOR COM. COLLEGES & OCCUP. EDUC.

No. 81CA0372.

652 P.2d 1087 (1982)

Judith OLSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, and Marti Dyer-Allison, Vicki Evans, and Marie Noon, on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. The STATE BOARD FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGES AND OCCUPATIONAL EDUCATION, and Ellin Mrchek, Angelo M. Daurio, Stephen J. DeJong, Ross Forney, Thomas T. Grimshaw, Richard O. Jones, Gwendolyn A. Thomas, Fred W. Valdez, Jr., Kirk Wagner, members of the State Board for Community Colleges and Occupational Education; The Pikes Peak Community College Council and Norman Pledger, Betty Dyatt, Mildred Guy, Jerry Jones, James Lunghofer, members of the Pikes Peak Community College Council; The Pikes Peak Community College Student Senate, and Jeff Johnson, Carol Davis, Jane Wertz, Pam Shaver, Cheryl Shaver, Kathy Shaver, Fred Skinner, Alvin Wilson, Dee Steinbaugh, members of the Pikes Peak Community College Senate; and Donald W. McInnis, John Rodwick, and Robert Henry, members of the administration of Pikes Peak Community College, Defendants-Appellees.

Colorado Court of Appeals, Div. III.

Rehearing Denied June 3, 1982.

Certiorari Granted October 18, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry F. Hobbs, William P. Bethke, Denver, for plaintiff-appellant.

J.D. MacFarlane, Atty. Gen., Richard F. Hennessey, Deputy Atty. Gen., Mary J. Mullarkey, Jo Ann Soker, Asst. Attys. Gen., Denver, for defendants-appellees.


TURSI, Judge.

The issue presented on this appeal is whether the faculty advisor of a student-run college newspaper has standing to raise First Amendment challenges to the termination of funding for the newspaper. The trial court, on a motion for summary judgment, ruled there was no standing. We reverse.

On June 1, 1979, the student senate of Pikes Peak Community College in Colorado Springs voted to remove the entire appropriation of $12,400 for the Pikes...

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