The briefs of selected court cases affecting student dissent and discipline in higher education presented in this report are divided in the following sections: (1) relationship between students and the institution, including contractual theory and in loco parentis; (2) relationship between the courts and education, including cases involving jurisdiction, state action, and scholastic affairs; (3) due process, including cases involving: specificity of rules, notice and hearing, right to counsel, off campus judicial proceedings, freedom of speech, expression and assembly, speaker bans, search and seizure and interim suspension; and (4) equal protection. (AF)