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West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943), is a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court holding that the First Amendment protects students from being forced to salute the American flag or say the Pledge of Allegiance in public school.
West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette , 319 U.S. 624 (1943) Gobitis , 310 U.S. 586 (1940), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States restricting the religious rights of public school students under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution .
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit said in Castorina v. Madison County School Board that based on Tinker and other Supreme Court rulings, the school board could not ban Confederate flag T-shirts while other "controversial racial and political symbols" like the "X" symbol associated with Malcolm X and the African American Muslim ...
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Saluting the flag or reciting the Pledge of Allegiance – West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943) Requiring a newspaper to publish an advertisement – Miami Herald v. Tornillo (1974) School attendance past the eighth grade – Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972) Motto on license plate – Wooley v. Maynard (1977) [21]
For First Amendment principles to be implicated, the State must place the citizen in the position of either apparently or actually "asserting as true" the message. This was the focus of Barnette [West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943)], and clearly distinguishes this case from that one.
This category is for legislation, public policy, and case law regarding the legal history of the state of West Virginia in the United States. Pages in category "Legal history of West Virginia" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
Wake County voters will decide this fall on the nine members of the school board who set the policies for North Carolina’s largest school district. The two-week filing period opened on July 1 ...