LEVIN v. HARLESTON

No. 90 Civ. 6123 (KC).

752 F.Supp. 620 (1990)

Professor Michael LEVIN, Plaintiff, v. Bernard W. HARLESTON, President of the City College of the City University of New York, individually and in his official capacity; Leonard Roellig, individually and in his official capacity; Michael Arons, individually and in his official capacity; Max Bond, individually and in his official capacity; Juan Flores, individually and in his official capacity; Janice R. Joy, individually and in her official capacity; Marlene MacLeish, individually and in her official capacity; Sheldon Weinbaum, individually and in his official capacity; and Paul Sherwin, Dean of the City College of the City University of New York, individually and in his official capacity, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

December 13, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scott M. Univer, New York City, for plaintiff.

Clement J. Colucci, New York State Dept. of Law and Jane Denkensohn, New York City, for defendants.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

CONBOY, District Judge:

This action challenges a university's effort to define the circumstances in which it may limit the academic freedom of its professors to express and exchange controversial and offensive ideas in a university setting. Plaintiff Michael Levin is a tenured professor of philosophy at City College who holds controversial views, expressed in his writings and public statements...

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