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The First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of speech applies to students in the public schools. In the landmark decision Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, the U.S. Supreme Court formally recognized that students do not "shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate". [1]
The First Amendment, as applied through the Fourteenth, did not permit a public school to punish a student for wearing a black armband as an anti-war protest, absent any evidence that the rule was necessary to avoid substantial interference with school discipline or the rights of others. Court membership; Chief Justice Earl Warren Associate ...
The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prevents Congress from making laws respecting an establishment of religion; prohibiting the free exercise of religion; or abridging the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press, the freedom of assembly, or the right to petition the government for redress of grievances.
In the case against Olentangy Schools, Parents Defending Education said on behalf of parents that the policies violate students' rights under the First and 14th amendments, The Dispatch previously ...
Nov. 30—PALMER — A new lawsuit filed by two Mat-Su high school seniors contends district officials repeatedly violated their free speech rights this fall, first by an investigation into a ...
Mar. 10—For a third year in a row, measures that would strengthen First Amendment protections for high school and college journalists are dead for the legislative session. Due to the COVID-19 ...
Hazelwood School District et al. v. Kuhlmeier et al., 484 U.S. 260 (1988), was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States which held, in a 5–3 decision, that student speech in a school-sponsored student newspaper at a public high school could be censored by school officials without a violation of First Amendment rights if the school's actions were "reasonably related" to a ...
These college campus protests are just examples of the exercising of the First Amendment rights that we all possess. The potential danger to us all happens when those in authority abuse their ...