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Schenck v. United States
Schenck was arrested for printing leaflets with messages such as "Do not submit to intimidation", "Assert your rights" during World War 1. Basically telling potentinal soliders to not enter the army.
Schenck was arrested, tried arguing that his first amendment rights were violated but that was denied and he spent 6 months in jail. -
Rosenberg v. Board of Education of City of New York
Decided the books 'Oliver Twist' and 'the Merchant of Veince' could be banned from public libraries, schools or classrooms. -
Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District
Courts ruled students were allowed to wear black arm bands in protest of the war. -
Brandenburg v. Ohio
held that government cannot punish unpopular speech unless it is directed to cause 'clear and present danger' -
Wooley v. Maynard
A Jehovah’s Witness objected to New Hampshire’s state motto—“Live Free or Die”—on his license plate. Because the saying went against his conscience, he did not believe the state had a right to force him to advertise something the state believes in, but he does not. He tried to cover it up and was arrested.
Court agreed with him. -
Right to Read Defense Committee v. School Committee of the City of Chelsea
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.
Court found ban to be unconstituinal. -
Loewen v. Turnipseed
ruled that the criteria used were not justifiable grounds for rejecting the book. He held that the controversial racial matter was a factor leading to its rejection, and thus the authors had been denied their constitutionally guaranteed rights of freedom of speech and the press. -
Zykan v. Warsaw (Indiana) Community School Corporation and Warsaw School Board of Trustees
Suit dismissed, courts ruled schools have that right to choose and delete cirriculum. -
Smith v. Board of School Commissioners of Mobile
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."
The Court found that the texts in question promoted important secular values (tolerance, self-respect, logical decision making) and thus the use of the textbooks neither unconstitutionally advanced a nontheistic religion nor inhibited theistic religions. -
Case v. Unified School District
School tried to remove a book titled 'Annie on my mind' which dipects the relationship of a lesibian couple but the courts denied the removal stating 'there was no vulgar language, sexually explicite or anything offensive' which was what the school claimed. -
Counts v. Cedarville School District
School was ordered to replace the Harry potter series back in public schools, at the time students were only allowed to check the books out with written permission.
