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JARMAN v. WILLIAMS

No. 84-1337.

753 F.2d 76 (1985)

Tom JARMAN & Shirley Jarman, as parents & next friends of Mark & Melissa Jarman; Jan & Mike Blatchley, as parents & next friends of Michelle Blatchley; Jan & Alvis Morris, as parents & next friends of Patrick, Kelly, Terry, & Matt Morris; Edith Simmons, as parent & next friend of Edie, Lisa, Ronnie & Mike Simmons; Willard & Kay Garrett, as parents & next friends of Jana Garrett; Nada & Ferdinand Halter, as parents & next friends of David, Rita & Becky Halter, Appellants, v. Howard WILLIAMS, Freddie Fowlkes, Barbara Weaver, Charles McWilliams, Wayne Mitchell, Ronnie Shumate, and Ronnie Kelley, individually & in their official capacities as members of the Board of Education of the Vilonia School District; and James Hardage, Superintendent of the Vilonia School District, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided January 21, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip E. Kaplan, Peter A. Miller, Karen L. Arndt, Kaplan, Brewer & Miller, P.A., Little Rock, Ark., for appellants.

William C. Brazil, Charles E. Clawson, Jr., Brazil, Clawson & Adlong, Conway, Ark., for appellees.

Before ARNOLD, Circuit Judge, HENLEY, Senior Circuit Judge, and JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.

ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

The question presented is whether the First Amendment compels the Vilonia School District No. 17 of Faulkner County, Arkansas, to rent a school gymnasium to a group of parents who wish to hold dances for high-school students. The plaintiffs contend that dancing is a form of expression protected by the First Amendment, that a policy adopted by the school board in 1980 makes school property a public forum...

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