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Schenck vs United States
Schenck v. United States, case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on March 3, 1919, that the freedom of speech protection afforded in the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment could be restricted if the words spoken or printed represented to society a “clear and present danger.” I got this from www.britannica.com -
Evans vs Selma Union Highschool District of Fresno Coutny
"he California court decided that the King James Bible was not a “sectarian” book. In the process, it also stated that the Douai Version (chiefly used by Catholics) was not sectarian. Although the library was thus free to purchase “either or both” versions, the California high court did not, at least not in this case, have to choose between them." Information from mtsu.edu -
Near vs Minnesota
He attacked local officials charging that they were implicated with gangsters. Minnesota officials had an injunction to prevent Near from publishing his newspaper under a state law that allowed such action against periodicals. The law provided that any person "engaged in the business" of regularly publishing or circulating an "malicious, scandalous and defamatory" newspaper or periodical was guilty of a nuisance and could be enjoined (stopped) from further committing or maintaining the nuisance. -
Rosenburg vs Board of Education of city of New York
The charges of Oliver Twist and the Merchant of Venice are "objectionable because they tend to engender hatred of the Jew as a person and as a race," the Supreme Court, Kings County, New York, decided that these two works cannot be banned from the New York City schools, libraries, or classrooms, declaring that the Board of Education "acted in good faith without malice or prejudice and in the best interests of the school system entrusted them -
Edwards vs South Carolina
187 marchers in this case all of whom were black, organized a march to the South Carolina State House grounds in small groups of fifteen would walk in an open public area protesting the policies of segregation in the state. The march was peaceful and didn't ruin any traffic or anything to that effect. 30 policemen came up to the marchers and told them they had to disperse. The marchers did not disperse and started to sing religious and patriotic songs. Then they were arrested for peace breaking. -
Brandenburg vs Ohio
"Brandenburg, a leader in the Ku Klux Klan, made a speech at a Klan rally and was later convicted under an Ohio criminal syndicalism law. The law made illegal advocating "crime, sabotage, violence, or unlawful methods of terrorism as a means of accomplishing industrial or political reform," as well as assembling "with any society, group, or assemblage of persons formed to teach or advocate the doctrines of criminal syndicalism." This quote is from www.oyez.org -
Todd vs Rochester Community
" In deciding that Slaughterhouse-Five could not be banned from the libraries and classrooms of the Michigan schools, the Court of Appeals of Michigan declared: "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." From ala.com -
Salvail vs Nashua Board of Education
"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." From ala.com -
Loewen vs Turnipseed
"When the Mississippi Textbook Purchasing Board refused to approve Mississippi: Conflict and Change for use in Mississippi public schools, on the grounds that it was too concerned with racial matters and too controversial, the authors filed suit. U.S. District Judge Orma R. Smith ruled that the criteria used were not justifiable grounds for rejecting the book." From ala.com -
Kreimer vs Bureau of police for Morristown
"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. Such exercise could not interfere with or disrupt the library's reasonable rules of operation." From ala.com -
Case vs unified school district
"When the Olathe, Kansas, School Board voted to remove the book Annie on My Mind, a novel depicting a lesbian relationship between two teenagers, from the district's junior and senior high school libraries, the federal district court in Kansas found they violated the students' rights under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and the corresponding provisions of the Kansas State Constitution. Despite the fact that the school board testified they had removed the book." ala.com -
Counts vs Cedarville School district
"The school board of the Cedarville, Arkansas school district voted to restrict students' access to the Harry Potter books, on the grounds that the books promoted disobedience and disrespect for authority and dealt with witchcraft and the occult. As a result of the vote, students in the Cedarville school district were required to obtain a signed permission slip from their parents or guardians before they would be allowed to borrow any of the Harry Potter books from school libraries."From ala.com
