Danskin V. San Diego Unified School District

Petitioners are members and officers of the San Diego Civil Liberties Committee affiliated with the American Civil Liberties Union. On January 10, 1946, they filed an application with respondent board for the use of the Roosevelt Junior High School Auditorium for a series of meetings on the general theme of the "Bill of Rights in Postwar America." Speakers were to include the late Judge John Beardsley of the Superior Court of Los Angeles, Colonel Evans F. Carlson, Thomas Whelan, District Attorney of San Diego County; George R. Baird, United States Commissioner; Reverend Edward Radcliff, Dr. W. P. Winters, Reverend Kenneth L. Danskin, one of the petitioners herein, and Clarence Novotny. In December, 1945, the board had adopted rules and regulations to govern the use of school property for public purposes and as a civic center. In their application, petitioners stated that they would not comply with rules, 4, 7, 11, 17 and 20,*fn* which they claimed were in