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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CHRISTIAN LEGAL SOCIETY CHAPTER

OF UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,

HASTINGS COLLEGE OF THE LAW, a/k/a

HASTINGS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP,

Plaintiff,

 v.

MARY KAY KANE, et al.,

Defendants.

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No. C 04-04484 JSW

NOTICE OF TENTATIVE

RULING AND QUESTIONS

TO ALL PARTIES AND THEIR ATTORNEYS OF RECORD, PLEASE TAKE

NOTICE OF THE FOLLOWING TENTATIVE RULING AND QUESTIONS FOR THE

HEARING SCHEDULED ON DECEMBER 2, 2005:

The Court tentatively DENIES the motion for summary judgment filed by plaintiff

Christian Legal Society Chapter of University of California, Hastings College of the Law, a/k/a

Hastings Christian Fellowship (“CLS”) and tentatively GRANTS the cross-motions for

summary judgment filed by defendants Mary Kay Kane, Judy Chapman, Maureen E. Corcoran,

Eugene L. Freeland, Carin T. Fujisaki, John T. Knox, Jan Lewenhaupt, James E. Mahoney,

Brian D. Monaghan, Bruce L. Simon, John K. Smith, and Tony West and by defendantintervenor Hastings Outlaw (collectively “Defendants”). 

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Each party will have twenty minutes to address the following questions:

(1) Separate from any claim of expressive association, what speech is allegedly infringed by

Hastings’ enforcement of its nondiscrimination policy? 

(2) To demonstrate Hastings’ application of the nondiscrimination policy to CLS is

viewpoint discriminatory, CLS argues that Hastings allows other registered student

groups to take public positions on various issues. (Plaintiff’s Reply & Opposition at 16-

17.) Does CLS contend that any other groups have or seek to exclude members or

officers based on any characteristics covered by the nondiscrimination policy? If so, on

what evidence in the record does it rely?

(3) Does CLS have any authority in addition to the cases cited in its reply brief to support its

position that Hastings has created a designated public forum subject to heightened

scrutiny as opposed to a limited public forum?

(4) The court in Boy Scouts of America v. Wyman, 335 F.3d 80, 91 (2d Cir. 2003), held that

Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, 530 U.S. 640 (2000), was inapplicable because the

government’s exclusion of a group from a particular forum did not amount to a

compulsion that the group admit certain members. How does CLS distinguish the

holding in Wyman? 

(5) Does CLS dispute that the “hybrid rights” exception to rational basis review for CLS’s

free exercise claim is inapplicable if the Court determines that none of CLS’s other

constitutional rights have been violated? Assuming arguendo that the “hybrid rights”

exception is either invalid or inapplicable, does CLS dispute that its free exercise claim

is subject to rational basis review? If so, on what basis?

(6) CLS does not address its equal protection claim in its reply brief. Does CLS concede

that its equal protection claim fails as a matter of law? If not, how does CLS respond to

Hastings’ cross-motion on this claim?

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(7) Do the parties have anything further to add?

Dated: December 1, 2005 

JEFFREY S. WHITE

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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