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Tinker v. Des Moines community school district
Strudents were expelled for wearing black armbands in school to express views on the Vietnam War. The casae expresses the rights of students in schools to express political and social views. -
Todd v. Rochester community schools
Decided that Slaughterhouse-five couldnt be banned from libraries and classrooms of the Michigan schools. -
Wooley v. Maynard
a Jehovas witness did not agree on New Hampshires motto "Live Free or Die" on license plates. He covered up the motto on his license plate and got prosecuted. The supreme court agreed with him on his right for freedom of thought and they didnt change it because most people like it. -
Right to read defense committee v. school committee of the city of chelsea
The school decided to ban Male and Female under 18, a poem anthology, because of the poem, The City to a Young Girl. It was a offensive and damaging poem. -
New York v. Ferber, 458 U.S. 747, 102 S.Ct. 3348, 73 L.Ed.2d 1113
Court added child pornography as another category of speech excluded from First Amendment protection. The supreme court affirmed a conviction against Ferber for showing a movie depicting two young boys masturbating. The film itself was not seen as obscene for adults, but the Court made the distinction between what was obscene if children were the participants compared with if adults were the leading actors. -
Romano v. Harrington, 725 F.Supp. 687
A highschool newspaper advisor had a violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments when fired following the newspaper's publication of a student's article opposing the federal holiday for Martin Luther King, Jr. The Court held that educators may exercise greater editorial control over what students write for class than what they voluntarily submit to extracurricular publications. -
Virgil v. School Board of Columbia County
Presented the question of whether the First Amendment prevents a school board from removing a previously approved textbook from an elective high school class because of objections to the material's vulgarity and sexual explicitness. In conclusion, it was decided that the school board could take out such books. -
U.S v. Eichman and U.S v. Haggety
a United States Supreme Court case that invalidated a federal law against flag desecration as violative of free speech under the First Amendment to the Constitution. It was argued together with the case United States v. Haggerty. -
Simon & Schuster, Inc. v. Members of New York State Crime Victims Board, 502 U.S. 105, 112 S.Ct. 501, 116 L.Ed.2d. 476
New York's "Son of Sam Law," was struck dowb, 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. It was agreed that many important books--includingThe Autobiography of Malcolm X, Thoreau's Civil Disobedience, and works by Martin Luther King-might not have been published with such a law in place. -
Lamb's Chapel v. Center Moriches Union Free School Dist., 508 U.S. 384, 113 S.Ct. 2141, 124 L.Ed.2d. 352
If a school district that opened its classrooms after hours to a range of groups for social, civic, and recreational purposes, including films and lectures about a range of issues such as family values and child-rearing, could not deny access to a religious organization to discuss the same, permissible issues from a religious point of view. -
City of Ladue v. Gilleo, 512 U.S. 43, 114 S.Ct. 2038, 129 L.Ed. 2d. 36
there was a local ordinance banning the placement of signs on private property beacuase a local woman put out a sign protesting the persian gulf war. -
Case v. unified school district
Olathe, Kansas school board voted to remove the book, Annie on my mind because it depicts a lesbian relationship between two teenagers -
Denver Area Educational Telecommunications Consortium, Inc. v. FCC, 518 U.S. 727, 116 S.Ct. 2374, 135 L.Ed.2d. 288
A law was put in effect allowing cable company operators to ban indecent speech on lease accessed channels. Another law was put in effect requiring indecent material to be shown on separate, segregated cable channels. -
Cohen v. San Bernardino Valley College, 92 F.3d 968
Tenured professor of English disciplined for violating the college's sexual harassment policy against creating a "hostile learning environment" for his in-class use of profanity, and discussions of sex, pornography, etc. He didnt know it would be applied to his teaching methods but was let go. -
American Amusement Machine Association, et al., v. Teri Kendrick, et al., 244 F.3d 954
Arcade game owners were limited to what games they could sell to minors. Limits started with certain game activities. With parent permission, 17 year old individuals were allowed to play games with vulgar activities.
