Goodman v. Board of Education

An appeal from a judgment denying petitioner a writ of mandate entered following the sustaining of respondents’ general demurrer without leave to amend. The writ is sought to compel respondent board of education and the individual members thereof, its secretary and the superintendent of public schools of the San Francisco Unified School District to permit the use, as a civic center, of an auditorium or school room in a designated free public schoolhouse. The application therefor set forth that the use of the premises was desired “for the purpose of meeting and discussing the Socialist Party’s…