Soglin v. Kauffman
United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
418 F.2d 163 (1969)
- Written by Jennifer Flinn, JD
Facts
Representatives from the Dow Chemical Company (Dow) held on-campus interviews of students on the campus of the University of Wisconsin. Several students (plaintiffs) of the University of Wisconsin protested Dow’s presence on campus. The students were notified that they were suspended, pending a hearing, for “misconduct” for allegedly blocking doorways and corridors at the university and interfering with student interviews by the company. No specific standard of student conduct, pursuant to the university’s regulations, was alleged to have been broken. The students filed a lawsuit against university officials and others (defendants), arguing that the university’s standard of “misconduct” was unconstitutionally vague. The district court entered a declaratory judgment ruling that the “misconduct” standard violated the Due Process Clause of the First and Fourteenth Amendments. The university officials appealed, arguing that the university had the inherent power to discipline students for what the university believed to be misconduct, even if the university could not point to a specific standard of student conduct that had been broken.
Rule of Law
Issue
Holding and Reasoning (Cummings, J.)
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