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BICKNELL v. VERGENNES UNION HIGH SCHOOL

Civ. A. No. 78-223.

475 F.Supp. 615 (1979)

David BICKNELL, by his guardian Donald Bicknell; Timothy Bicknell, by his guardian Donald Bicknell; Rodney Blacklock, by his guardian Martha Blacklock; Cheryl Brinkman, by her guardian Sonia Sears; David Carney by his guardian Donald Carney; Mitchell Davis, by his guardian Mickey Davis; Linda Farley, by her guardian Roger Farley; Timothy Lattrell, by his guardian Robert Lattrell; Lynn Ritchie, by her guardian Ruth Ritchie; Elizabeth A. Phillips; Ruth Orr; Patricia Rockwell; Donald Bicknell; J. Albert Tisbert; Dorothy Tisbert; and Right to Read Defense Committee of Vergennes v. VERGENNES UNION HIGH SCHOOL BOARD OF DIRECTORS; David Potter and Charles Memoe.

United States District Court, D. Vermont.

August 24, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard A. Axelrod, Gensburg & Axelrod, St. Johnsbury, Vt., for plaintiffs.

Anthony B. Lamb, Paul, Frank & Collins, Robert H. Erdmann, Dinse, Allen & Erdmann, Burlington, Vt., for defendants.

OPINION AND ORDER

COFFRIN, District Judge.

The parties in this action brought, we assume, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 as well as 28 U.S.C. § 1343, have placed before the court a controversy involving one of our most fundamental and most carefully guarded political rights—the right to freedom of speech. The court is asked to determine whether the administrators of a public school district may remove books from the shelves of a high school...

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