Legal Opinion
Williams v. Wendler
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 23, 2008No. 07-3315PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiffs in this civil rights suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 are three black female students at Southern Illinois University, a state university, who were suspended by the university, one for two years and the other two for three years, for hazing another black female student, who was pledging the plaintiffs’ sorority, Zeta Phi Beta.
The university defines hazing as “any action required of or imposed on current or potential members of a group which produces or is reasonably likely to produce bodily harm, humiliation or ridicule, substantial interference with academic…
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