Lower Court Holding
Decision of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
This case concerns whether a religious student organization may compel a public university law school to fund its activities and to allow the group to use the school’s name and facilities even though the organization admittedly discriminates in the selection of its members and officers on the basis of religion and sexual orientation. Christian Legal Society (CLS) contends that [UC Hastings College of the Law’s] enforcement of its nondiscrimination policy, and its refusal to grant CLS an exception to exclude students on the basis of religion and sexual orientation, infringes its members’ rights to free speech, free association, free exercise,…
