SHELTON v. TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY

No. 88-2167.

891 F.2d 165 (1989)

Steven SHELTON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided December 8, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven Shelton, Titusville, Fla., pro se.

Albert J. Velasquez, Office of the University Counsel, Bloomington, Ind., for defendants-appellees.

Before CUDAHY, POSNER, and FLAUM, Circuit Judges.


POSNER, Circuit Judge.

This is a suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the trustees of Indiana University, a public university, and others by a law student, Steven Shelton, who claimed that the university decided not to rehire him as a resident assistant in an Indiana University dormitory because he displayed an automatic rifle in his room as part of a political statement about the Vietnam War. The suit seeks both injunctive...

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