Oxfeld v. New Jersey State Board of Education

These proceedings challenge the constitutionality of a school regulation governing student distribution of pamphlets and leaflets on school grounds. Out of deference to our dissenting colleagues we withheld announcement of our decision in the case, it being anticipated that some guidance to those who felt obliged to address the merits might be forthcoming from the United States Supreme Court. While this case was pending here, the Supreme Court heard argument in Bd. of School Comm’rs, Indianapolis v. Jacobs, 420 U. S. 128, 95 S. Ct. 848, 43 L. Ed. 2d 74 (1975), wherein students sought to…