Gay Lib V. University Of Missouri
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

Gay Lib v. University of Missouri, 558 F. 2d 848 (8th Cir. 1977) was a court case in 1977 about discrimination in
student group A student society, student association, university society, student club, university club, or student organization is a society or an organization, operated by students at a university or a college institution, whose membership typically consists ...
recognition at state universities, namely the
University of Missouri The University of Missouri (Mizzou, MU, or Missouri) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus Universit ...
. The case reached the
United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (in case citations, 8th Cir.) is a United States federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the following United States district courts: * Eastern District of Arkansas * Western Dis ...
. The courts determined that "the University, acting here as an instrumentality of the State, has no right to restrict
speech Speech is a human vocal communication using language. Each language uses Phonetics, phonetic combinations of vowel and consonant sounds that form the sound of its words (that is, all English words sound different from all French words, even if ...
or
association Association may refer to: *Club (organization), an association of two or more people united by a common interest or goal *Trade association, an organization founded and funded by businesses that operate in a specific industry *Voluntary associatio ...
'simply because it finds the views expressed to be abhorrent'."


References

LGBT rights in Missouri LGBT history in Columbia, Missouri 20th century in Columbia, Missouri United States LGBT rights case law United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit cases 1977 in United States case law University of Missouri 1977 in LGBT history {{LGBT-law-stub