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JONES V. STATE BD. OF ED. OF TENNESSEE, 397 U. S. 31 (1970)

397 U. S. 31

U.S. Supreme Court

Jones v. State Bd. of Ed. of Tennessee, 397 U.S. 31 (1970)

Jones v. State Board of Education of Tennessee

No. 731

Argued January 19-20, 1970

Decided February 24, 1970

397 U.S. 31

Syllabus

Writ of certiorari to determine if indefinite suspension from university where petitioner was a student violated his First Amendment rights held improvidently granted, since (as developed after the writ was granted) the suspension as partly based on a finding that he lied at the hearing on the charges against him.

407 F.2d 834, certiorari dismissed.