Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Graziani v. Committee on Legal Ethics
Graziani v. Comm. on Legal Ethics, 416 U.S. 995 (1974)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1974-05-13
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- requiring, in a suit by disappointed listeners, a state university to pay an honorarium and travel expenses to a speaker whose invitation was withdrawn by the university president because of what the speaker might say
- " 'A school may not stifle dissent because the subject matter is out of favor. Free expression is itself a vital part of the educational process.' "
- prison guard prevented an inmate from defending himself against an attack from another inmate
- complaint alleging intentional, willful and reckless failure to provide adequate training to prison guards dismissed for failure to allege supporting facts
- incumbent upon university to justify censorship it sought to impose on student publication
- where prison officials stood by and allowed an attack on a prisoner to proceed
- state supreme court, court of appeals, district court, state bar association
- prisoner's liberty interest implicated in assault by fellow prisoner
Citator
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- 214 opinions
Sup. Ct. App. W. Va. Certiorari denied.
Mr. Justice Douglas adheres to his dissent in Ullmann v. United States, 350 U. S. 422, 440, and would reverse judgment of lower' court.