HAUGHWOUT v. TORDENTI

(SC 20076).

211 A.3d 1 (2019)

332 Conn. 559

Austin HAUGHWOUT v. Laura TORDENTI et al.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Officially released July 30, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mario Cerame , Hartford, for the appellant (plaintiff).

Ralph E. Urban , assistant attorney general, with whom, on the brief, was George Jepsen , former attorney general, for the appellees (defendants).

Rebecca E. Adams filed a brief for the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education as amicus curiae.

Robinson, C.J., and Palmer, McDonald, Mullins, Kahn, Ecker and Vertefeuille, Js.


In this appeal, we consider the limits of free speech on a public university campus in light of recent history that has led federal and state courts to describe threats of gun violence and mass shootings as the twenty-first century equivalent to the shout of fire in a crowded theater once envisioned by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes...

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