Papish v. Board of Curators of the University of Missouri, 410 U.S. 667 (1973)

Legal Question: Whether a university that expelled a student for reprinting an offensive cartoon and a profane article headline in a campus newspaper violated the First Amendment. Action: The Court held that ideas distastefully expressed are not unprotected, that the cartoon was not legally obscene, and that the student's expulsion was based on content, and not on a valid time, place, and manner restriction.

Chief Justice Burger, joining the dissent, at 11:20

Justice Rehnquist, dissenting, at 13:23

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