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STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASS'N v. BD. OF TR. OF UNIV. OF MASS.

No. 88-1261.

868 F.2d 473 (1989)

The STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION, etc., et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. The BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF the UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided February 21, 1989.

As Amended February 27, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard W. Cole with whom Laurie A. Morin and Stahlin and Bergstresser, Inc., Boston, Mass., were on brief, for appellants.

Marjorie Heins, Massachusetts Civ. Liberties Union Foundation, Anita S. Lichtblau, Michael D. Weisman, and Hill & Barlow, Boston, Mass., on brief, for the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts and the Nat. Lawyers Guild, amici curiae.

Peter B. Ellis with whom Joseph D. Halpern, Boston, Mass., Mark S. Masling, Cambridge, Mass., Foley, Hoag & Eliot and William E. Searson, III, University General Counsel, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for appellees.

Before TORRUELLA and SELYA, Circuit Judges, and ATKINS, Senior District Judge.

TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiffs, three students at the University of Massachusetts and three student organizations, sued the University's Board of Trustees and four University officials seeking declaratory and injunctive relief. The crux of the complaint was that the defendants conspired to violate the plaintiffs' First Amendment rights to speak and associate freely and to petition the government with grievances by abolishing the University's Legal Services...

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