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043503P.pdf 01/05/2006 Martin Wishnatsky v. Laura Rovner
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 04-3503
District of North Dakota
[PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with McMillian and Benton, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - civil rights. Complaint was sufficient to give defendants
fair notice that plaintiff was alleging that defendant, the director of the
University of North Dakota's Law School's Clinical Education Program,
had denied him legal representation in violation of his First and
Fourteenth because of his prior criticism of the school and the director;
accepting as true plaintiff's allegation that he was denied representation
because of his publically expressed views about the clinic and its lawsuit
challenging a public display of the Ten Commandments, the district court
erred in dismissing the complaint because it was sufficient to state a
claim that plaintiff had been unconstitutionally denied state services
based on his speech.