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BOARD OF REGENTS OF UNIV. OF WIS. SYSTEM
v. SOUTHWORTH
Opinion of the Court

Justice Kennedy delivered the opinion of the Court.
For the second time in recent years we consider constitu-
tional questions arising from a program designed to facilitate

Myers, Attorney General, David Schuman, Deputy Attorney General, and
Michael D. Reynolds, Solicitor General; for the American Civil Liberties
Union et al. by Jon G. Furlow, Steven R. Shapiro, Elliot M. Mincberg,
and Judith E. Schaeffer; for the American Council on Education et al. by
Stephen S. Dunham, Leonard M. Niehoff, and Sheldon E. Steinbach; for
the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organiza-
tions by Jonathan P. Hiatt, James B. Coppess, and Laurence Gold; for the
Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law by
Scott D. Makar, Robert Bergen, Michael J. Frevola, and Burt Neuborne;
for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Campus Center at UW-
Madison et al. by Patricia M. Logue and Ruth E. Harlow; for the National
Legal Aid Defenders Association, Student Legal Services Section, by Ned
R. Jaeckle and Kathleen A. Cushing; for the National Education Associa-
tion by Robert H. Chanin, Andrew D. Roth, and Michael D. Simpson; for
the New York Public Interest Research Group by Alexander R. Sussman;
for the Student Press Law Center et al. by Lucy A. Dalglish; for Student
Rights Law Center, Inc., by Mitchel D. Grotch; for the United States Stu-
dent Association et al. by David C. Vladeck and Alan B. Morrison; for
United Council of University of Wisconsin Students, Inc., by Mark B. Ha-
zelbaker; for the University of California Student Association by Michael
S. Sorgen and Amy R. Levine; and for the Wisconsin Student Public Inter-
est Research Group et al. by Daniel H. Squire, Craig Goldblatt, and Fran-
cisco Medina.

Briefs of amici curiae urging afﬁrmance were ﬁled for the Atlantic
Legal Foundation by Martin S. Kaufman and Edwin L. Lewis III; for the
American Center for Law and Justice by Jay Alan Sekulow, Mark Nathan
Troobnick, and James Matthew Henderson, Sr.; for the Christian Legal
Society by Steven T. McFarland, Samuel B. Casey, and Thomas C. Berg;
for the Family Research Institute by Roy H. Nelson; for Liberty Counsel
by Mathew D. Staver; for the National Legal Foundation by Barry C.
Hodge; for the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, Inc., by
Raymond J. LaJeunesse, Jr.; for the National Smokers Alliance by Renee
Giachino; for the Paciﬁc Legal Foundation et al. by Deborah J. La Fetra;
and for the Washington Legal Foundation et al. by Daniel E. Troy, Daniel
J. Popeo, and Paul D. Kamenar.

Briefs of amici curiae were ﬁled for Americans United for Separation
of Church and State et al. by Steven K. Green, Steven M. Freeman, and
Ayesha N. Khan; for First Freedoms Foundation by Michael D. Dean; for