ALBERT v. CAROVANO

No. 690, Docket 87-7111.

851 F.2d 561 (1988)

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, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. J. Martin CAROVANO, President of Hamilton College; Jane L. Jervis, Dean of Students at Hamilton College; and Hamilton College, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided June 28, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Edward R. Conan, Syracuse, N.Y. (John A. Beach, Jonathan B. Fellows, Bond, Schoeneck & King, Syracuse, N.Y., of counsel), for defendants-appellees.

Eugene D. Gulland, Elizabeth H. Gorman, Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C., Sheldon Elliot Steinbach, Gen. Counsel, American Council on Educ., Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae American Council on Educ.

David M. Lascell, Marion Blankopf, Nixon, Hargrave, Devans & Doyle, Rochester, N.Y., Sandra McMullan, Nat. Institute of Independent Colleges and Universities, Washington, D.C., Elizabeth Van Nest, Com'n on Independent Colleges and Universities, Albany, N.Y., for amici curiae Nat. Institute of Independent Colleges and Universities and Com'n on Independent Colleges and Universities.

Robert S. Smith, Stuart M. Cobert, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York City, John Mason Harding, Gen. Counsel, Columbia University, New York City, Walter J. Relihan, Jr., Gen. Counsel, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., S. Andrew Schaffer, Vice President and Gen. Counsel, New York University, New York City, Dorothy K. Robinson, Gen. Counsel, Yale University, New Haven, Conn., for amici curiae Columbia University, Cornell University, New York University and Yale University.

Before OAKES, MESKILL, NEWMAN, KEARSE, WINTER, PRATT, MINER, ALTIMARI and MAHONEY, Circuit Judges.


ON REHEARING IN BANC

WINTER, Circuit Judge, with whom MESKILL, JON O. NEWMAN, KEARSE, PRATT, MINER, ALTIMARI and MAHONEY, Circuit Judges, join:

This appeal presents the question whether the disciplinary actions of a private college, by virtue of a state statute requiring colleges to adopt disciplinary rules and to file them with the state, constitute state action under the Constitution and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1982). The appeal also requires us to address...

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