Censorship of college papers.
A June June: see month. 20, 2005 Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in Hosty v.
Carter opens the gates for the censorship censorship, official prohibition or restriction of any type of expression believed to threaten the political, social, or moral order. It may be imposed by governmental authority, local or national, by a religious body, or occasionally by a powerful private group. of college papers. At
Governors State University, a suburban Chicago campus, Dean Patricia
Carter stopped publication of the Innovator, the college newspaper.
Managing editor, student Margaret Hosty, lead other students in a
lawsuit lawsuit: see procedure; tort. against Carter, but lost (The Village Voice, August 2, 2005, and
In These Times, August 1, 2005).
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