Email and First Amendment - How much protection for electronicl speech on campus?

The Free Speech and Freedom of Association

First Amendment Issues (regulation of e-speech on state university computer system)

The Labor Union Issues

C onstitutional challenge to University policy and Texas statue restricting labor organizations
Constitutional challenge to exclusion of non-citizens from labor union organizing

PLEADINGS AND ORDERS

The Adjuncts' Original Complaint, filed in the Southern District of Texas (Jay Gogue email copy)

The Adjuncts' Memorandum of Law in Support of Preliminary Injunction (court-filed copy)

Defendants' Response in Opposition to Plaintiffs' Motion for Preliminary Injunction (by Daniel C. Perkins)

Plaintiffs' First Amended Original Complaint

Judge Lee Rosenthal's Memorandu m and Order on the Parties' Cross-Motions for Summary Judgment

TESTIMONY [coming soon]

Court Reporter's Transcript of Hearing on Plaintiffs' Application for Preliminary Injunction

Testimony by:

Hossein Shahrokhi, Executive Director of Information Technology, UHD
Dr. Jill Carroll, Author of two books on adjunct professors, columnist for The Chronicle of Higher Education
Dr. Wolfgang Hirczy de Mino, Named Plaintiff
Dr. Molly Woods, Provost, University of Houston Downtown
Said Fattouh, Director of User Support Services, UHD

SUMMARY JUDGMENT AFFIDAVITS [coming soon]

Affidavit of Hossein Shahrokhi (page1), Director of Information Technology, University of Houston Downtown
page 2 page 3 page 4 page 5

Exhibits showing faculty email account disk space utilization and accounts designated as "prohibit send"

               UHD Email Account Storage Statuses 6/4/2004   (5.5MB pdf file, may take a while to load)
               UHD E-mail Account Storage Statuses 3/1/2005 (5.5MB pdf file, may take a while to load)

Affidavit of Dr. Adolfo Santo s (page 1) Administrative Chair, Department of Social Sciences, UH-D
page 2 page 3

Exhibit: Adjunct Staffing

Declaration of Wolfgang Hirczy de Mino, Ph.D.

EXHIBITS

[coming soon]

APPEAL

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals' Docket Sheet for Cause No. 05-21098

Fifth Circuit Opinion in Faculty Rights Coalition v. Hossein Shahrokhi

Faculty Rights Plaintiffs Appellate Brief ---> Table of Contents and Summary of Issues Presented

RELATED CASE

Dallas Area Rapid Transit v. Amalgamated Transit Union Local No. 1338,
No. 05-05-00241-CV (Tex.App.–Dallas, Oct. 14, 2005, pet filed and docketed as No. 06-00034)(ebriefs)
[collective bargaining; is state sovereign immunity preempted by federal law?]
Question presented on petition to the Supreme Court: Where Texas governmental entities are immune from lawsuits for
money damages unless immunity from suit has been clearly and unambiguously waived by the Teas Legislature, does the
Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 (now Federal Transit Act) preempt the Texas doctrine of governmental immunity to
allow a labor union to pursue a lawsuit for money damages against a Texas Regional Transportation Authority?