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BOARD OF REGENTS OF UNIV. OF WIS. SYSTEM v. SOUTHWORTH

No. 98-1189.

529 U.S. 217 (2000)

BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM v. SOUTHWORTH et al.

United States Supreme Court.

Decided March 22, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan K. Ullman, Assistant Attorney General of Wisconsin, argued the cause for petitioner. With her on the briefs were James E. Doyle, Attorney General, and Peter C. Anderson, Assistant Attorney General.

Jordan W. Lorence argued the cause for respondents. With him on the brief was Daniel Kelly.*

Kennedy, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Rehnquist, C. J., and O'Connor, Scalia, Thomas, and Ginsburg, JJ., joined. Souter, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment, in which Stevens and Breyer, JJ., joined, p. 236.

Justice Kennedy delivered the opinion of the Court.

For the second time in recent years we consider constitutional questions arising from a program designed to facilitate extracurricular student speech at a public university. Respondents are a group of students at the University of Wisconsin (hereinafter University). They brought a First Amendment challenge to a mandatory student...

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