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Re: Supreme Court refuses to hear community service case (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel E. Natt)
Tue Oct 8 22:31:38 1996
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 22:29:48 -0400
Reply-To: "Joel E. Natt" <nattjo@SCIS.ACAST.NOVA.EDU>
From: "Joel E. Natt" <nattjo@SCIS.ACAST.NOVA.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <199610090224.WAA11697@polaris.acast.nova.edu>
On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Tom Brown wrote:
> Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case of a student who
> was denied graduation because he refused to satisfy a community service
> requirement. The appeals court had upheld a school's right to require such
> service for graduation. The effect of the Supreme Court's refusal is to
> uphold that court's ruling.
>
> And does anyone know more about this case and on what grounds the student
> refused?
>
I will check on this tommorrow at the Law School.
YiFL$S,
Joel Natt
NSU-PG
Past President