Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System v. Southworth

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Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System v. Southworth
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 9, 1999 Decided March 22, 2000
Full case name	Board of Regents of Univ. of Wis. System v. Southworth
Citations	529 U.S. 217 (more) 120 S. Ct. 1346; 146 L. Ed. 2d 193; 2000 U.S. LEXIS 2196; 68 U.S.L.W. 4220; 2000 Cal. Daily Op. Service 2265; 2000 Daily Journal DAR 3049; 2000 Colo. J. C.A.R. 1471; 13 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 197
Case history
Prior	Southworth v. Grebe, 151 F.3d 717 (7th Cir. 1998); rehearing denied, 157 F.3d 1124 (7th Cir. 1998); cert. granted, 526 U.S. 1038 (1999).
Holding
Public universities may subsidize campus groups by means of a mandatory student activity fee without violating the students' First Amendment rights.
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer
Case opinions
Majority	Kennedy, joined by Rehnquist, O'Connor, Scalia, Thomas, Ginsburg
Concurrence	Souter (in judgment), joined by Stevens, Breyer
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. I

Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System v. Southworth, 529 U.S. 217 (2000), is a ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States which held that public universities may subsidize campus groups by means of a mandatory student activity fee without violating the students' First Amendment rights.^[1]