Keyishian v. Board of Regents of Univ. of State of NY

Appellants were members of the faculty of the privately owned and operated University of Buffalo, and became state employees when the University was merged in 1962 into the State University of New York, an institution of higher education owned and operated by the State of New York. As faculty members of the State University their continued employment was conditioned upon their compliance with a New York plan, formulated *592partly in statutes and partly in administrative regulations,1 which the State utilizes to prevent the appointment or retention of “subversive” persons in state employment.

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