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Reynolds vs. United States
This is a case that was takin to the Supreme Court and was over a Mormon man who was apart of the church of latter day saints and he is charged with bigamy because he was married to Amelia Jane Schofield while he was still married to Mary Ann Tuddenham in Utah territory.he argued that it was his religous duty to marry multiple women. he is charged guilty under bigamy act. -
Schenck v. United States
This courrt case was dealt with the first amendement underneath the violation of clear and present danger clause. The people involved in this court case had been mailing out pamphlets saying the militarty draft was the same thing as invoulatary servitude. This is also where the famous phrase yelling "fire in a theatre" was made famous by Justice Oliver Wendell Homes. -
Evans v. Selma Union High School District of Fresno County
In this case the Supreme court ruled that schools can purchase bibles for their libraires and it does not violate any thing in the constitution -
West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette
In 1940, the West Virginia Board of Education issued regulations requiring every schoolchild to participate daily in a salute to the flag of the United States. The Barnette children, all members of the Jehovah's Witnesses, refused to participate in the flag salute, consistent with the tenets of their religious beliefs, and were expelled from school. The Supreme Court struck down the regulation on the grounds that the First Amendment barred any rule compelling an individual to salute the flag or -
West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette
In this court case a school district had made a law where it required all students to salute the flag during the pledge of alegience. The parents of some students and they took it to the U.S Supreme court where the law was shot down and declared unconctitonal. This is under the Right to Dissent part of the constition. -
Rosenberg v. Board
In this case under free speech was once again brought up under the cocncern that the books Oliver Twist and Merchant Of Venice would inspire hatetred towards Jewish people. The Supreme court decided that these books were not fit to be banned -
Butler v. Michigan
There was a man who had been charged with corrupting minors because he published a book that encouraged children to not listen to police officers. This man took his case to the supreme court and they delcared he was treated wrong and the states ban on books they thought corrupt to children was removed -
Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District
In this court case the freedom of expression was in question on the grounds that several students wore black arm bands to school to protest against the Vietnam war. It was said the bands were disrespectful by the schools adminastriron they were asked to take the bands off and they did not. The supreme court ruled that the school asking the students to take the arm bands off was unconstitional. -
Stanley v. Georgia
In this case a mans house was searched and he had in his posseion some materials that were consided undersiable and the police sharged him with havin undesiable popsseions. But he took his case to the supreme court and that law was then proven unconstitional. This case pertains to our right to anynomity and privacy gurantted by the first amendment -
FCC V. Pacifica Foundation
This was the case where the U.S supreme court decided that the FCC had the right to cnesor tv. -
Smith v. Board of School Commissioners of Mobile
The parents of students in a school district had brought to their school board a petiotion requesting that they force 44 text books that mentioned a relgion called "secular humanisim" this violated these parents belifes and the school board removed the books. This had to deal with the freedom of expression clause under our Constition. But when this made its way to supreme court it was decieded that the schools could teach this subject because it promtoted good decison making, and tolerance. -
Hustler Inc. vs Falwell
Hustler Magazine published a parody of a liquor advertisement in which Rev. Jerry Falwell described his "first time" as a drunken encounter with his mother in an outhouse. A unanimous Supreme Court held that a public figure had to show actual malice in order to recover for intentional infliction of emotional distress as a result of a parody in a magazine. The Court held that political cartoons and satire such as this parody "have played a prominent role in public and political debate. judgement -
Concerned Women for America, Inc. v. Lafayette County
This was a case where a public funded library had allowed a section for public gatherings, but when the library denied a relgious group to assimialte there it was taken to court and declared uncotitional and the group was allowed to assemble. This was a seperatrion of church and state issue -
Denver Area Educational Telecommunications Consortium, Inc. v. FCC
This case also had to do with Censorship and the right to ban what you dont like except it was up to the cable companys if they wanted to censor there public acess channels -
American Library Association v. U.S. Department of Justice and Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union, 521
This was a court case that invovled that made sending pictures that contain porongrahic matrierals to minors over the internet -
Simon & Schuster, Inc. v. Members of New York State Crime Victims Board
The Supreme Court struck down New York's "Son of Sam Law," which required book publishers to turn over to the state, any proceeds from a book written by any person convicted of a crime, related to or about that crime. The Court said the law impermissibly singled out income only from the prisoner's expressive activity, and then only expressive activity relating to his crime, without necessarily compensating any victims of those crimes.
