Committee for the First Amendment v. Campbell

BALDOCK, Circuit Judge.

“How much contrition should be expected of a defendant is hard for us to say. This surely is a question better addressed to the discretion of the trial court.” United States v. W.T. Grant Co., 345 U.S. 629, 634, 73 S.Ct. 894, 898, 97 L.Ed. 1303 (1953).

Plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunc-tive (and later monetary) relief against various defendants1 in response to a decision by the Board of Regents (Regents) of Oklahoma State University (OSU) suspending the showing of The Last Temptation of Christ.2 The Student Union Activities Board (SUAB) had scheduled the film for…