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In the landmark case of Near v. Minnesota (1931), the Supreme Court established that prior restraint on publication, or government censorship before publication, violates the First Amendment's protection of freedom of the press, a principle later applied to free speech generally. -
The relief the plaintiffs requested was for the African American children to be returned to segregated schools and for the implementation of the desegregation plan to be postponed for two and a half years. -
A case in which the Court held that the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee a right of legal counsel to anyone accused of a crime. -
Dollree Mapp was convicted of possessing obscene materials after an admittedly illegal police search of her home for a fugitive. She appealed her conviction on the basis of freedom of expression. The court ruled in her favor, due to the search being illegal. -
The New York State Board of Regents authorized a short, voluntary prayer for recitation at the start of each school day. A group of organizations joined forces in challenging the prayer. -
Louisiana, 391 U.S. 145 (1968), was a significant United States Supreme Court decision which incorporated the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial and applied it to the states. -
North Carolina is a case decided on March 13, 1967, by the United States Supreme Court that incorporated the right to a speedy trial of the Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution to states. -
In the 1972 case of Rabe v. Washington, the Supreme Court ruled that a state cannot criminally punish the exhibition of a film at a drive-in theater if the obscenity law doesn't provide "fair notice" that the location of the exhibition is a vital element of the offense. -
decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional -
The Court held that Ohio was constrained to recognize students' entitlements to education as property interests protected by the Due Process Clause. -
A case in which the Court held that public schools have the right to prohibit the use of vulgar and offensive language. -
The principal of Hazelwood East High School edited two articles in the school paper The Spectrum that he deemed inappropriate. The student authors argued that this violated their First Amendment right to freedom of speech. The Supreme Court disagreed, stating that administrators can edit materials that reflect school values. -
admissions programs which consider race as one of many factors in the context of an individualized consideration of all applicants can pass constitutional muster. -
The Student Activities Drug Testing Policy adopted by the Tecumseh, Oklahoma School District (School District) requires all middle and high school students to consent to urinalysis testing for drugs in order to participate in any extracurricular activity.