Opinion ID: 1249253
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Constitutionality of ASUC Expenditures

Text: With the foregoing principles in mind, I turn to the critical issues before us: What is the defining mission of the University for purposes of First Amendment analysis under Keller and Abood, does that mission serve important state interests, and is the mandatory student fee reasonably employed to effectuate that mission? In resolving these questions, I shall consider the exaction and expenditure issues together, for, as Keller instructs, to define the interests which justify the imposition of a mandatory fee is to delineate the constitutional uses to which such funds may be put. ( Keller, supra, 496 U.S. at p. 13 [110 L.Ed.2d at p. 14] [The First Amendment forbids the expenditure of mandatory dues for ideological activities not `germane' to the purpose for which compelled association was justified ....].) Each of the parties', as well as the majority's, responses to these critical questions will be considered in turn.