A group of former students, including All-American football player and team captain Henry Hill, filed a lawsuit Thursday morning alleging that the University of Michigan is illegally limiting their attempts to share stories about the abuse perpetrated by deceased team doctor Robert Anderson.
Hill, who played for the Wolverines from 1968-1970 and was voted the team's most valuable player in his final season, said he wanted to speak about being abused by Anderson at a meeting of the university's Board of Regents this summer, but was denied. He and nine others claim in their lawsuit that the board's policy -- which limits public comment on any particular subject to five speakers per monthly meeting -- violates the state's Open Meetings Act and "censors speakers from whom the [regents] might not wish to hear.