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GALDA v. BLOUSTEIN

Civ. A. No. 79-2811.

516 F.Supp. 1142 (1981)

Joseph P. GALDA, Paul Ewert and Kristina Farrow, Individually, and upon behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. Dr. Edward J. BLOUSTEIN, Individually, and as President of Rutgers, The State University, Dr. Norman Reitman, Individually, and as Chairman of the Board of Governors of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Donald S. McNaughton, David A. Werblin, Katherine Elkus White, Donald M. Dickerson, Sanford M. Jaffe, Robert Kaplan, Edward Kramer, Linda Stamato, Robert J. Torricelli, Individually, and as members of the Board of Governors of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and Walter K. Gordon, Individually, and as Dean of Rutgers Camden College of Arts and Science, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. New Jersey.

June 19, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bradford S. Smith, Cinnaminson, N. J., for plaintiffs; Myrna P. Field, Mid-Atlantic Legal Foundation, Philadelphia, Pa. and Hugh Joseph Beard, Jr., Charlotte, N. C., of counsel.

Frederick L. Whitmer, Pitney, Hardin & Kipp, Morristown, N. J., for defendants Bloustein, Reitman, McNaughton, Werblin, White, Dickerson, Jaffe, Kaplan, Kramer, Stamato, Torricelli, and Gordon Lewis Goldshore, Trenton, N. J., for defendant-intervenor New Jersey Public Interest Research Group, Inc.; John Cary Sims, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

OPINION

BROTMAN, District Judge.

Traditionally, First Amendment litigation has focused on the affirmative rights of individuals and groups to freedom of speech and association. In recent years, however, the increasing centralization of society has led to free speech concerns of a somewhat different nature— that individuals not be compelled to adhere to or support ideological positions espoused by powerful governmental or commercial organizations....

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