Kania v. Fordham

ERVIN, Circuit Judge:

This appeal requires us to consider once again the constitutionality of the mandatory student fees imposed by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Specifically, the appellants, Richard and Jay Kania and Michael Morris, brought this action against officials of the University asserting that the partial funding of the University’s student newspaper by the student fees compels them to advocate views with which they disagree, in violation of the fourteenth amendment.1 We rejected this identical contention, raised by different plaintiffs, in Arrington v. Taylor, 380…