Papish v. Board of Curators, 410 U.S. 667 (1973)

Name: Papish v. Board of Curators, 410 U.S. 667 (1973) - Syllabus
Author: U.S. Supreme Court

Papish v. Board of Curators of the University of Missouri

No. 72-794

Decided March 19, 1973
410 U.S. 667

ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES

COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT

Syllabus

Expulsion of student for distributing on campus a publication assertedly containing "indecent speech" proscribed by a bylaw of a state university’s Board of Curators held an impermissible violation of her First Amendment free speech rights, since the mere dissemination of ideas on a state university campus cannot be proscribed in the name of "conventions of decency."

Certiorari granted; 464 F.2d 136, reversed.

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