Legal Opinion
Vail v. Board of Education of Portsmouth School District
District Court, D. New Hampshire
Decided February 21, 1973No. 1:03-adr-00006PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BOWNES, District Judge.
This is a students civil rights class action brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in which the plaintiffs seek declaratory relief under 28 U.S.C. §§ 2201 and 2202 and injunctive relief for the alleged deprivations, under color of State law, of rights of public school students secured by the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. Jurisdiction is based on 28 U.S.C. § 1343(3, 4).
Three basic constitutional issues are raised:
First, does the Portsmouth School Board rule forbidding “the distribution of non-school sponsored written materials…
2Cases cited30 opinions
- Board of Regents of State Colleges v. RothSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Roth v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School DistrictSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Meyer v. NebraskaSupreme Court of the United States · 1923
- Boddie v. ConnecticutSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
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3Cited by22 opinions
- Goss v. LopezSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Graff v. NichollDistrict Court, N.D. Illinois · 1974
- Morale v. GrigelDistrict Court, D. New Hampshire · 1976
- Donald v. Hatch and Viola Hatch v. Earl E. GoerkeCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1974
- Wilson v. ChancellorDistrict Court, D. Oregon · 1976
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