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Schenck Vs. United States
This trial helped the Supreme court define what the limits are for freedom of speech, as a man named Charles Schenck was posting fliers that urged young men not to join the troops. This created the "clear and present danger" standard, which explains when the government can limit free speech. The supreme court viewed the propaganda and protest as dangerous to national security. -
Bethel School District v. Fraser
Matthew Fraser was suspended from Bethel for giving a speech at a school assembly that was inappropriate. Matt gave a speech to nominate another student for a student government office, and 600 students attended the assembly. The speech included repeated use of “explicit sexual metaphor,” in reference to other student. The speech made the students upset.The school banned him from speaking at graduation.he sued the school but they found that it didn't violate his first amendment rights. -
Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District
Three students at the Des Moines school,John Tinker and Chris Eckhardt high school students, and Mary Beth Tinker was in 8th grade. They got suspended from school for wearing the armbands to protest the Vietnam war. Although they got suspended for it, they still wore it anyways when they came back. The school then made a policy that they couldn't wear the armbands at the school, but, the students still wore them. The students got suspended again and then they sued the school district. -
New York Times Co. v. United States
This case made it possible for The New York Times and Washington Post newspapers to publish the Pentagon Papers without risk of government censorship. The Pentagon Papers were a top-secret Department of Defense study of U.S. political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967.The Pentagon Papers revealed that Harry Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson had all misled the public about the degree of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. -
Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier
A public school principal removed two articles from the school newspaper due to "inappropriate" content.The newspaper at Hazelwood East High School, “Spectrum,” was produced by the journalism class.Two articles were removed from an issue because the principal found their content objectionable.One story was about teen pregnancy, and the other was about divorce.Cathy Kuhlmeier and two other students from the class sued the school claiming their 1st Amendment rights had been violated. -
Texas Vs Johnson
A youth communist, Gregory Lee Johnson, had burned a flag in Dallas because of Ronald Reagan's administration as president. The texas court had ruled that Johnson had broke the law of desecrating the flag, but, The Supreme Court had reversed it. This Supreme Court Case invalidated statutes in Texas and 47 other states prohibiting flag-burning. -
Morse v. Frederick
A public school student was suspended for displaying a banner promoting drug use at a school event.the Olympic Torch Relay passed through Juneau, Alaska on the way to the winter games in Salt Lake City, Utah, students attended school-sponsored event. a senior named Joseph Frederick, with the help of others, held up a banner that read: “BONG HiTS 4 JESUS.” The principal, Deborah Morse, took the banner and suspended Frederick.Frederick sued the school and Morse for violating his rights. -
Trump revokes former C.I.A director's security clearance
Trump revoked, John Brennan, former C.I.A director's security clearance. Trump publicly stated intention to consider revoking clearances of a list of other administration critics. the president abused his powers by revoking a clearance, with no process at all, solely because John was exercising his First Amendment right to speak freely about policy issues.Trump thinks that John holds a security clearance only as a courtesy so that current senior officials may consult with him. -
Man berating officer
On August 21, a man walked into a police department berating officers. The officers ordered him to leave, which it said in the memo, that civilians aren't allowed to record in the police department, and if ordered to leave and they don't it could lead to an arrest. Courts have held that the government can place reasonable restrictions on when, where and how individuals can exercise their rights under the First Amendment to record the police. The man was not arrested.
