Appellants, faculty members of the State University of New York and a nonfaculty employee, brought this action for declaratory and injunctive relief, claiming that New Yorks teacher loyalty laws and regulations are unconstitutional. Their continued employment had been terminated or was threatened when each appellant faculty member refused to comply with a requirement of the university trustees that he certify that he was not a Communist and that if he had ever been one he had so advised the university president; and the nonfaculty employee refused to state under oath whether he had advocated or been a member of a group which advocated forceful overthrow of the government. Under 3021 of New Yorks Education Law "treasonable or seditious" utterances or acts are grounds for dismissal from the public school system, as well as under 105, subd. 3, of the Civil Service Law. Other provisions of 105 of the Civil Service Law disqualify from the civil service or employment in the educational system any person advocating or involved with the distributio