Jones & Laughlin Hourly Pension Plan v. LTV Corp.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding state action where Student Senate was a “creation[] of the State” and university retained “final say over Senate funding decisions”
• finding a First Amendment violation where the university denied funding to a student group that advocated for gay rights because the “government may not discriminate against people because it dislikes their ideas”
• political pressure from state legislators not to fund the Gay and Lesbian Students Association or to allow dissemination of opinions tolerant towards homosexuals were not proper justifications for denying funding to the student group
• “The University need not supply funds to student organizations; but once having decided to do so, it is bound by the First Amendment to act without regard to the content of the ideas being expressed.”
• “Conduct may be prohibited or regulated, within broad limits. But government may not discriminate against people because it dislikes their ideas, not- even when the ideas include advocating that certain conduct now criminal be legalized.”
• attributing the former statement to Justice Holmes

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).