Legal Opinion
Rosenberger v. Rector & Visitors of University of Virginia
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 29, 1995No. 94-329PublishedCited by 1,795 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Kennedy
The University of Virginia, an instrumentality of the Commonwealth for which it is named and thus bound by the First and Fourteenth Amendments, authorizes the payment of outside contractors for the printing costs of a variety of student publications. It withheld any authorization for payments on behalf of petitioners for the sole reason that their student *823paper “primarily promotes or manifests a particular belie[f] in or about a deity or an ultimate reality.” That the paper did promote or manifest views within the defined exclusion seems plain enough. The challenge is to the University’s…
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