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Parents and other citizens brought a lawsuit against the school board, alleging that the school system was teaching the tenets of an anti-religious religion called "secular humanism."
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They tried to make a library exclude the king james bible from the collection of books at the library. The court stated that the mere act of purchasing a book to be added to the school library does not carry with it any implication of the adoption of the theory or dogma contained therein, or any approval of the book itself, except as a work of literature fit to be included in a reference library. Freedom of press and religion were involved in this case.
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Since Anita Whitney did not base her defense on the First Amendment, the Supreme Court, by a 7 to 2 decision, upheld her conviction of being found guilty under the California’s 1919 Criminal Syndicalism Act for allegedly helping to establish the Communist Labor Party, a group the state argued taught the violent overthrow of government.
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In this case, the Supreme Court interpreted the First and Fourteenth Amendments to forbid "previous restraints" upon publication of a newspaper
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Peaceful picketing to advertise a labor dispute was determined to be protected by the first amendment. Freedom of assembly is addressed
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Tried to say Oliver Twist and Merchant of Venice are objectionable because they tend to engender hatred of the Jew as a person and as a race. Court decided that these two works cannot be banned from the New York City schools, libraries, or classrooms. Freedom of press and free expression.
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Maryland’s requirement that office holders declare a belief in the existence of God was ruled unconstitutional.Freedom of religion is adressed.
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The Supreme Court established the modern version of the "clear and present danger" doctrine, holding that states only could restrict speech that "is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action, and is likely to incite or produce such action."
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Courts decided that Slaughterhouse-Five could not be banned from the libraries and classrooms of the Michigan schools. Vonnegut's literary dwellings on war, religion, death, Christ, God, government, politics, and any other subject should be as welcome in the public schools of this state as those of Machiavelli, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Melville, Lenin, Joseph McCarthy, or Walt Disney.The students of Michigan are free to make of Slaughterhouse-Five what they will."
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The Strongsville City Board of Education rejected faculty recommendations to purchase Joseph Heller's Catch-22 and Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater and ordered the removal of Catch-22 and Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle from the library. Freedom of religion and press, also rights in school
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The Chelsea, Mass. School Committee decided to bar from the high school library a poetry anthology, Male and Female under 18, because of the inclusion of an "offensive" and "damaging" poem, "The City to a Young Girl," written by a fifteen-year-old girl.
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MS magazine was removed from a New Hampshire high school library by order of the Nashua School Board. The U.S. District Court decided for the student, teacher, and adult residents who had brought action against the school board, the court concluding: "The court finds and rules that the defendants herein have failed to demonstrate a substantial and legitimate government interest sufficient to warrant the removal of MS magazine from the Nashua High School library. All first ammenment rights
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A law completely banning the utility company from advertising the promotion of electricity was deemed unconstitutional.
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In detailed analysis, the court of appeals held that a municipal public library was a limited public forum, meaning open to the public for the specified purposes of exercising their First Amendment rights to read and receive information from library materials
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Media outlets can not be held liable for broadcasting material acquired illegally by a third party.
