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Near v. Minnesota
Frank W. Brunskill, was accused of participation in graft. Among the paper's other targets were mayor George E. Leach, Hennepin County attorney and future three-term governor Floyd B. Olson, and the members of the grand jury of Hennepin County, were either incompetent or willfully failing to investigate and prosecute known criminal activity. by publishing, selling, or distributing a "malicious, scandalous and defamatory newspaper." Olson claimed that the allegations raised against him. -
Schneider v. State of New Jersy
Court decision that combined four similar appeals,each of which presented the question whether regulations embodied in municipal ordinances abridged the 1st and 14th Amendment. -
IDK
Two Books were ruled unconstitutional in a school library in NYC. The Mechant of Venice and Oliver Twist. -
Brandenburg v. Ohio
Clarence Brandenburg, a Ku Klux Klan (KKK) leader in Ohio, contacted a reporter at a Cincinnati television station and invited him to a KKK rally that would take place in Hamilton County. Brandenburg was charged with advocating violence .The U.S. Supreme Court reversed Brandenburg's conviction, holding that government cannot constitutionally punish abstract advocacy of force or law violation. The majority opinion was per curiam. -
Bethel School District v. Fraser
Matthew Fraser, a Pierce County, Washington high school senior, gave a speech nominating classmate Jeff Kuhlman for Associated Student Body vice president. The speech was full of sexual refrences, but not obscenity, prompting disciplinary action from the administration. -
Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District
Petitioners, three students in Des Moines, Iowa, were suspended from school for wearing black armbands to protest the Government's policy in Vietnam. They saw nominal damages and an injunction against a regulation that had promulgated banning the wearing of armbands. District Court dismissed the complaint and, that the regulation was within the Board's power, despite the absence of any finding of substantial interference with the conduct of school activities. -
Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier
Two articles in The Spectrum, Hazelwood East High School in St. Louis County, Missouri where removed. When the principal removed an article on danother concerning teen pregnancy, the student journalists sued. In May 1985, it ruled that no violation of First Amendment rights had occurred, and held that school officials may restrict student speech in activities that "are an integral part of the school's educational function" as long as the restriction has "a substantial and reasonable basis -
Campbell v. St. Tammany Parish
St. Tammany Parish School removed all "voo doo" books from the library because a student hid one from her mother, and her mother got upset. The district Court agreed that removing the books violated the 1st amendment. -
Morse v. Frederick
High School principal Deborah Morse suspended Joseph Frederick after he displayed a banner reading "Bong hits for Jesus" across the street from the school during the 2002 Olympic Torch Relay.On April 25, 2002, Frederick filed a civil rights lawsuit against Morse and the school board, saying they violated his federal and state constitutional rights to free speech. -
Guiles v. Marineau
a student at Williamstown Middle High School, had worn a shirt with the name "George W. Bush" and the words "Chicken-Hawk-In-Chief," a large picture of the President's face, wearing a helmet, on the body of a chicken. Also the picture of the President was a depiction of "three lines of cocaine and a razor blade." Accusing him of doing drugs. The school wrote that student a referral. -
Island Trees School Distric v. Pico
Petitioner on the board, rejected recommendations of a committee of parents and school staff that it had appointed, ordered that certain books, which the Board characterized as "anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-Sem[i]tic, and just plain filthy," be removed from high school and junior high school libraries. -
Evans v. Selma Union
Focused on Religious text. The California State Supreme Court held that the King James Version of the Bible was not a “publication of a sectarian, denominational, or partisan character” that a State statue required a public high school library to exclude from its collections. Protestant Churches are the main users of the King James Version of the bible and other Christians do not rely on it as religious text. The court says "This does not allow it to “make its character sectarian.”
