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BRIGHT v. NUNN

No. 21022.

448 F.2d 245 (1971)

Steve BRIGHT, Plaintiff-Appellant, and American Association of University Professors, University of Kentucky Chapter, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Louie B. NUNN, Governor of Commonwealth of Kentucky, and Otis Singletary, President of University of Kentucky, Defendants-Appellees, and E. Lawson King, County Attorney of Fayette County, Commonwealth of Kentucky, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

September 24, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence G. Sager, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York City, for plaintiff-appellant; Melvin L. Wulf, Marilyn Haft, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York City, Alvin L. Goldman, William H. Allison, Jr., Lexington, Ky., on brief; Laura Sager, New York City, of counsel.

John B. Breckinridge, Atty. Gen. of Kentucky, Frankfort, Ky., W. Scott Miller, Jr., Louisville, Ky., for Governor Louie B. Nunn.

C. Gibson Downing, Stoll, Keenon & Park, Lexington, Ky., for Otis Singletary.

Before WEICK, PECK and KENT, Circuit Judges.

WEICK, Circuit Judge.

This appeal arises out of disorders on the campus of the University of Kentucky in Lexington, between May first and eighth, inclusive, 1970, which occurred subsequent to the incursion of United States Armed Forces into Cambodia and during the period of the Kent State tragedy in early May, 1970.

The Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, defendant Louie B. Nunn, deemed it necessary to and did send units of the Kentucky State Police...

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