Christian Legal Society v. Martinez

Christian Legal Society v. Martinez
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued April 19, 2010 Decided June 28, 2010
Full case name	Christian Legal Society Chapter of the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, aka Hastings Christian Fellowship v. Martinez, et al.
Docket no.	08-1371
Citations	561 U.S. 661 (more) 130 S. Ct. 2971; 177 L. Ed. 2d 838; 2010 U.S. LEXIS 5367
Argument	Oral argument
Case history
Prior	Judgment for defendants affirmed, Christian Legal Society v. Kane, 319 F. App'x 645 (9th Cir. 2009), cert. granted, 558 U.S. 661 (2011).
Subsequent	Sent to Lower, Christian Legal Society v. Wu, 626 F.3d 483 (9th Cir. 2010)
Holding
The policy of Hastings, which requires student groups to accept all students regardless of their status or beliefs in order to obtain official recognition, is a reasonable, viewpoint-neutral condition on access to the forum; it therefore does not transgress First Amendment limitations. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed and remanded.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Antonin Scalia Anthony Kennedy · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer Samuel Alito · Sonia Sotomayor
Case opinions
Majority	Ginsburg, joined by Stevens, Kennedy, Breyer, Sotomayor
Concurrence	Stevens
Concurrence	Kennedy
Dissent	Alito, joined by Roberts, Scalia, Thomas
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. I

Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, 561 U.S. 661 (2010), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court upheld, against a First Amendment challenge, the policy of the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, governing official recognition of student groups, which required the groups to accept all students regardless of their status or beliefs in order to obtain recognition.^[1]