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Morse v. Frederick, 551 U.S. 393 (2007), is a United States Supreme Court case where the Court held, 5–4, that the First Amendment does not prevent educators from prohibiting or punishing student speech that is reasonably viewed as promoting illegal drug use.
Morse v. Frederick blends Fraser and Hazelwood, applying them to a school-sanctioned event or activity. [2] While students were along a public street in front of school watching the Olympic Torch Relay pass through, Frederick unfurled a banner bearing the phrase: "BONG HiTS 4 JESUS". The banner was in plain view of other students.
At this point in the history of education, the free school movement was in full swing, and his next book, Freedom and Beyond (1972), questioned much of what teachers and educators really meant when they suggested children should have more freedom in the classroom. While Holt was an advocate of children having more rights and abilities to make ...
The student then sued and won at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which stated that the board violated the student's first amendment right to free speech. [56] On August 28, 2006, Starr filed a writ of certiorari for a hearing with the Supreme Court. [ 57 ]
Lamb's Chapel v. Center Moriches Union Free School District, 508 U.S. 384 (1993), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States concerning whether the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment was offended by a school district that refused to allow a church access to school premises to show films dealing with family and child-rearing issues faced by parents.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to decide whether federally mandated warnings on cigarette packs that graphically illustrate the health risks of smoking violate the ...
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Kleinfeld was the author of the unanimous panel decision of Morse v. Frederick , holding that a student who put up a banner supposedly supporting drug legalization was exercising his freedom of speech protected by the First Amendment , and the school principal acted unconstitutionally in suspending him.