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· 10/17/2023

Larry J. Willard v. Thomas J. Obata, Trustee

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  • holding that the Establishment Clause does not bar disbursement of funds from student activity fees to religious organizations
  • holding that the Establishment Clause does not bar disbursement of funds from student activity fees to religious organizations
  • holding that government may not discriminate on the basis of viewpoint when government is neither the speaker nor subsidizing the speech
  • holding that a state may reimburse a religious student group for costs incurred in printing an indoctrinating publication
  • holding that university could pay the publication expenses of a student Christian newspaper in accordance with its general policy of funding student newspapers
  • holding that a university's refusal to pay a third-party contractor for the printing costs of a student publication, based on the publication's religious editorials, was viewpoint discrimination

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