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SILL v. PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY

Civ. No. 70-325.

318 F.Supp. 608 (1970)

Geoffrey SILL, Alan C. Cunningham, Scott E. Gibbs, Kenneth R. Cooper, Steven D. Weiss, Walter T. Champion, Jr., John M. Forcey, Kenneth A. Karpovich, Diane K. Lehnig, Caesar J. Muccari, David S. Oswald, and M. Dean Ross, Plaintiffs, Richard A. Parkany, Joseph Schneller, John P. Yanak, Ellen Keyser and Paul Kostrow, Intervening Plaintiffs, v. The PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, its Board of Trustees, G. Albert Shoemaker, Individually and as President of its Board of Trustees, H. Thomas Hallowell, Jr., Individually and as Vice President of its Board of Trustees, and Dr. John W. Oswald, Individually and as its President, Defendants.

United States District Court, M. D. Pennsylvania.

September 25, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas K. Gilhool, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiffs.

McNees, Wallace & Nurick, G. Thomas Miller, F. Murray Bryan, Harrisburg, Pa., Delbert J. McQuaide, William J. Schwartz, Jr., McQuaide, Blasko & Brown, State College, Pa., for defendants.

Patrick T. Ryan, Philadelphia, Pa., for amicus curiae — Pennsylvania State University Chapter of the American Association of University Professors.

OPINION

NEALON, District Judge.

This action was instituted by twelve students at Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) against the Board of Trustees and the President of Penn State as a result of disciplinary action imposed on the students in June, 1970, following a campus disturbance in April, 1970.1 Declaratory and injunctive relief is sought to redress alleged violations of the students' rights under the First, Fifth...

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