More bad news for collegiate journalists...Supreme Court declines to hear Hosty v. Carter appeal

Well, when you consider that U.S. citizens are being illegally spied on by their own government and that municipalities can take away your property just to build a strip mall, I guess that little thing called the U.S. Constitution doesn't mean much anymore.

And now, we have the U.S. Supreme Court refusing to hear an appeal in Hosty v. Carter.

From Student Press Law Center:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court announced this morning that it will not hear a case that questioned the authority of administrators at an Illinois university to censor a student newspaper that published articles critical of the school.

The Court rejected a request by former student journalists at Governors State University in Illinois to review a lower court decision that could give university officials in three Midwestern states the authority to censor some college student speech based on a legal standard that had previously been applied only to high school and elementary school students and teachers.

As is its usual practice when ruling on whether or not to accept a case, the Court did not issue a written opinion to explain its decision.

The Court's ruling lets stand a June 2005 decision by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that could open the door to providing university administrators with authority to censor school-sponsored speech by public college students and faculty, including speech in some student newspapers, at schools in Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin...

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