Legal Opinion
Jackson Leeds v. Jonathan S. Meltz, Anthony Mansfield, Susan Ferraro, Merrick T. Rossein, Unknown John and Jane Does
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided May 21, 1996No. 1328, Docket 95-9041PublishedCited by 531 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MORAN, Senior District Judge:
BACKGROUND
Plaintiff-appellant Jackson Leeds (Leeds) filed this lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983 (§ 1983) against the acting dean (Merrick Rossein) of the City University of New York (CUNY) Law School, and the three co-editors-in-chief (Jonathan Meltz, Anthony Mansfield, and Susan Ferraro) of CUNY Law School’s monthly paper, “The Brief’. Leeds alleges that the student editors violated his First and Fourteenth Amendment rights to free expression by failing to publish his paid advertisement. The district court granted defendants’ Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss…
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