ALBERT v. CAROVANO

No. 928, Docket 87-7111.

824 F.2d 1333 (1987)

Braden L. ALBERT, Francis J. Callard, Julie L. Jones, Gur Melamede, Molly Mysliwiec, Demetri Orlando, Michelle Paninos, Cathleen Perry, Amy Rozgonyi, Gregory Shin, Michael Tilman, and Johnette Traill, Appellants, v. J. Martin CAROVANO, President of Hamilton College; Jane L. Jervis, Dean of Students at Hamilton College; and Hamilton College, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided July 21, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Krinsky, New York City (Terry Gross, Nicholas E. Poser, Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky & Lieberman, P.C., of counsel), for appellants.

Edward R. Conan, Bond, Schoeneck & King, Syracuse, for appellees.

Before OAKES and WINTER, Circuit Judges, and METZNER, District Judge.


OAKES, Circuit Judge:

On November 14, 1986, J. Martin Carovano, president of Hamilton College, a private institution in Clinton, New York, suspended a group of twelve students for engaging in a three-day sit-in of the college's administration building following their unsuccessful attempt to meet with Carovano to discuss the college's alleged insensitivity to various racial and gender issues. The suspended students filed suit in the United States District Court for...

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