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terminiello v.chicago
the U.S. supreme court limits the saying of "fighting words" document. writing most of the justice williams o. douglas says that the "function of free speech is to invite dispute. it may indeed best serve its high purpose when it induces a condition of unrest creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger.” -
NAACP v. alabama
the U.S. supreme court allows the naacp of Alabama to with hold its membership list from Alabama lawmakers. the court states that the demand by Alabama officials for the naacp to provide them a membership list violates members associational rights. -
pickering v. board of education
the U.S. supreme court rules that schools board officials violated the first amendment right of Illinois public school teacher marvin pickering, who was fired for writing a letter critical of the school administration to a local newspaper. -
united states v. O'Brien
in 1968 the united states v. o'brine the U.S. supreme court upholds the condition of david paul o'brine an anti-war protester accused of violation a federal statue prohibiting the public destruction of draft cards. o'brine saying that the burning of draft cards is "symbolic speech" protected by the first amendment. the court says that conduct combining "speech" and "non-speech" elements can be regulated if pacific requirements are met. -
New York times v. united states
the U.S. supreme court allows the public to see papers form the pentagon. the court said that the main purpose of the first amendment is to " prohibit the widespread practice of governmental suppression of embarrassing information" -
lloyd corp. v. tanner
the U.S. Supreme Court rules that owners of a shopping center may have anti-war activists from starting problems. The Court finds that citizens do not have a First Amendment right to express themselves on privately owned property. -
miami herald publishing co. v. tornillo
the U.S. Supreme Court says that a state law requiring newspapers to give free space so that the candidates can have an add in the news paper. The Court rules that the right of newspaper editors to choose what they wish to print or not to print and cannot let the public tell them what they can and cannot print -
buckley v. valeo
the U.S. Supreme Court rules that certain provisions of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1976, which limits expenditures to political campaigns, violate the First Amendment. -
NSPA v. skokie
the illinois supreme court rules in NSPA V. skokie that the national socialist party of america a neo-nazi group can march through skokie illinois a community inhabited by a number of holocaust survivors. -
employment division v. smith
the U.S. Supreme Court finds that the free-exercise clause of the First Amendment is not violated when two employees are fired after it was discovered that they ingested peyote as part of a religious ceremony. The Court rules that “an individual’s religious beliefs” do not “excuse him from compliance with an otherwise valid law prohibiting conduct the State is free to regulate.” -
stanley v. georgia
in stanley v. georgia the U.S. supreme court rules that the first and 14th amendments protect a person's "private possession of obscene matter" form criminal prosecution. but they cannot punish private possession of such in an individual's own home. -
boy scouts of america v. dale
the U.S. Supreme Court rules that application of a public-accommodation law to force the Boy Scouts to accept a gay scoutmaster is a violation of the private organization’s freedom of association guaranteed by the First Amendment.
