Case regarding the refusal to renew lease

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Buckley v.  Meng

June 25, 1962

Vladeck Elias for petitioners.

Leo A. Larkin, Corporation Counsel, for respondents.

JACOB MARKOWITZ, J.

"[C]ourage [is] the secret of liberty" ( Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357, 375, concurring opinion of BRANDEIS, J.) and, therefore, timidity on the part of its officials  in the face of heretical or controversial ideas cannot be tolerated in a democratic society. When such timidity is embodied in an official regulation governing the use of school buildings,