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HUSAIN v. SPRINGER

Docket No. 04-5250-cv.

494 F.3d 108 (2007)

Sarah HUSAIN, William Wharton, Devon Blinth, Colleen McGraham, Jeff McGraham, Kathleen McHugh, Marc J. Peseau, Neil Schuldiner, and Kasadore Ramkisson, Plaintiffs-Appellants, Manjula Wijerama, Morgan Healy, Diane Issac, James Murphy, Michael J. Perrine, Joanne Gallo, Desmond Figueroa, and John Pae, Plaintiffs, Iman El-Sayed and Renee Marhong, Intervenors-Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Marlene SPRINGER, Carol Jackson, Michael Silva, Winsome Alston, Sibi Geevarghese, Joseph Canale, Juergen Schnetzer, Andre Woods, Charlo Almeda, Christopher Alvarez, Kellyanne Biesty, Mary Anne Christensen, Luis Cruzatte, W. Ann Reynolds, Robert E. Diaz, Roy Moskowitz, Michael Solomon, City University of New York, College of Staten Island, Student Election Review Committee of the College of Staten Island, Board of Trustees of the City University of New York, Marla Brinson, Matthew Goldstein, and Kathleen Galvez, Defendants-Appellees, Washington Hernandez and Tina Jefferson, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: July 13, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald B. McGuire, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellants and Intervenors-Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Marion R. Buchbinder, Assistant Solicitor General (Michael S. Belohlavek, Senior Counsel, of counsel), for Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York, for Defendants-Appellees Marlene Springer, Carol Jackson, Michael Silva, Winsome Alston, Sibi Geevarghese, W. Ann Reynolds, Robert E. Diaz, Roy Moskowitz, Michael Solomon, City University of New York, College of Staten Island, Student Election Review Committee of the College of Staten Island, Board of Trustees of the City University of New York, Marla Brinson, Matthew Goldstein, and Kathleen Galvez.

Joseph P. Esposito, Nicolas Jafarieh, Jonah E. McCarthy, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, Washington, DC; Rex Heinke, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Los Angeles, CA; S. Mark Goodman, Michael C. Hiestand, of counsel, Student Press Law Center, Arlington, VA, for Amicus Curiae Student Press Law Center.

Before: JACOBS, Chief Judge, WALKER and CALABRESI, Circuit Judges.

Chief Judge JACOBS concurs and dissents in part in a separate opinion.

CALABRESI, Circuit Judge:

In this appeal, we consider whether a public college president's decision to cancel a student government election because of content published in a school newspaper violates the First Amendment rights of the student journalists who produce that publication. We conclude that, in the circumstances presented in this case, the school administrator's actions did violate...

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