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GROSSNER v. TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN CITY OF N.Y.

No. 68 Civ. 1877.

287 F.Supp. 535 (1968)

Morris GROSSNER et al., individually and on behalf of those similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. The TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN the CITY OF NEW YORK, et al., individually and in their official capacities, Defendants.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

July 9, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lubell & Lubell, William M. Kunstler, Arthur Kinoy, Floyd McKissick, New York City, Morton Stavis, Newark, N. J., Mary Kaufman, New York City, Michael A. Reiter, Madison, Wis., Dennis J. Roberts, Harriet Van Tassel, George Logan, Newark, N. J., Frederick H. Cohn, William H. Schaap, Charles T. McKinney, New York City, John E. Silverberg, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Thacher, Proffitt, Prizer, Crawley & Wood, New York City, for defendants, The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of N. Y., Grayson, Kirk, David B. Truman, and William E. Petersen.

J. Lee Rankin, Corp. Counsel of the City of New York, New York City, for defendant, Howard Leary.

Frank S. Hogan, New York City, pro se.

OPINION

FRANKEL, District Judge.

In this lawsuit, which grows out of grave troubles recently experienced at Columbia University, nine assorted plaintiffs —five students, the pastor of a church near the University, a chapter president of the Congress of Racial Equality, an alumnus, and a lecturer in the College and Graduate Faculties1— assert for "themselves and all persons similarly situated" various "causes of...

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