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KUHLMEIER v. HAZELWOOD SCHOOL DIST.

No. 85-1614.

795 F.2d 1368 (1986)

Cathy KUHLMEIER; Leslie Smart; Lee Ann Tippett, Appellants, v. HAZELWOOD SCHOOL DISTRICT; Charles Sweeney; Joseph Donahue; Gwen Gerhardt; August Busch, Jr.; Ann Gibbson; James Arnac; Dr. Thomas Lawson; Robert Eugene Reynolds; Howard Emerson; Dr. Francis Huss, Appellees. Student Press Law Center and Journalism Education Association, Amici curiae, for appellants St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Inc., Amicus curiae.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided July 7, 1986.

Rehearings and Rehearing Denied August 27, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leslie D. Edwards and Frank Susman, St. Louis, Mo., for appellants.

Robert P. Baine, Jr., Clayton, Mo., for appellees.

Before HEANEY, ARNOLD, and WOLLMAN, Circuit Judges.

Rehearings and Rehearing En Banc Denied August 27, 1986.

HEANEY, Circuit Judge.

The issue in this appeal is whether administrators of Hazelwood East High School violated the first amendment rights of the student staff of the school newspaper, Spectrum, by deleting two full pages of the May 13, 1983, edition because they objected to the content of two of the articles on these pages. We hold that Spectrum is a public forum for the expression of...

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