Legal Opinion
Scott H. Southworth and Benjamin Thompson v. Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 2, 2002No. 01-1912PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANION, Circuit Judge.
Six years ago, several students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (“the University”) sued the University challenging its mandatory student activity fee system on First Amendment grounds. Following appeals to this court and to the United States Supreme Court, on remand to the district court, the sole issue remaining was whether the mandatory fee system unconstitutionally granted the student government unbridled discretion for deciding which student organizations to fund. According to the students, such unbridled discretion existed and thus the system failed to…
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