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WEBB v. STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK

Civ. A. No. 5063.

125 F.Supp. 910 (1954)

Earl WEBB, as President of Sigma Tau Gamma, an unincorporated Association, and all others similarly situated, and Delta Kappa, Inc., Phi Sigma Epsilon, Alumni Association of Iota of Alpha Kappa Kappa, Inc., Pi Kappa Sigma, Delta Sigma Epsilon Sorority, Alpha Sigma Tau Sorority, Theta Sigma Upsilon Sorority and Roger Mueller, as Intervenors, Plaintiffs, v. STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, William S. Carlson, President, Charles Garside, Betty Hawley Donnelly, Norman S. Goetz, Frederick F. Greenman, George E. Haynes, Dwight Marvin, Earle J. Machold, Frank C. Moore, Joseph J. Myler, Edward N. Scheiberling, Henry D. Sherwood, and Emily Smith Warner, comprising the Trustees of State University of New York, Defendants.

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

June 7, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clifford H. Searl, Syracuse, N. Y., for Earl Webb and Alumni Assn. Iota of Alpha Kappa Kappa, Inc.

Hancock, Dorr, Ryan & Shove, Syracuse, N. Y., for Delta Kappa, Inc.

Kernan & Kernan, Utica, N. Y., for Phi Sigma Epsilon.

Butterfield, Gibbs, Harrington & Bernhardt, Buffalo, N. Y., for Pi Kappa Sigma, Delta Sigma Epsilon Sorority, Alpha Sigma Tau Sorority, Theta Sigma Upsilon Sorority and Roger Mueller; Robert P. Harrington and Julian B. Erway, of counsel.

Nathaniel L. Goldstein, Atty. Gen., of the State of New York, Wendell P. Brown, Sol. Gen., Albany, N. Y., John C. Crary, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Irving I. Waxman, New York City, of counsel, and Ruth V. Illes, Associate Counsel, Syracuse, N. Y., for State University.

Albert S. Bard, New York City, Counsel for National Inter-Fraternity Conference and the National Panhellenic Conference, amici curiae.

Before AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge, and BRENNAN and FOLEY, District Judges.

AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiffs and intervenors, as members and affiliates of national fraternities and sororities, seek to void the resolution adopted by the Board of Trustees of the State University of New York on October 8, 1953. The resolution in effect bans social organizations having a direct or indirect affiliation with any national or other organization ouside the particular unit of the State University where such social organization is located...

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