University of Utah Students Against Apartheid v. Peterson

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER ON PLAINTIFFS’ REQUEST FOR INJUNCTIVE RELIEF

ALDON J. ANDERSON, Senior District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

This action involves a dispute between student groups and the University of Utah over the existence and extent of the groups’ right to protest the South African apartheid system and the university’s investment policy through the use of physical structures resembling shanties (hereinafter “shanties”). The university gave the students a permit to display the shanties beginning in February, 1986. In late July, 1986, however, university officials determined that the…