HIST 3200 : Supreme Court Cases

Students alleged that their "First Amendment rights were violated by the deletion from [the] paper of...an article describing school students' experiences with pregnancy and another article discussing the impact of divorce on students at the school..."

ACLU reviews the impact of Morse V. Frederick

ACLU reviews the impact of Tinker v. Des Moines on subsequent cases involving free speech.

The decision in one of the most important student speech cases to reach the Court in decades came at the end of last term. The case, Morse v. Frederick, concerned the rights of a public school student to unfurl a banner reading “Bong hits 4 Jesus” at a school-sponsored event held off school grounds. We begin this school year with this landmark case on the rights of public school students.

"Today, the growing concern about drugs and violence in schools often trumps students’ privacy rights. Federal courts have found that students' Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable searches and seizure do not always apply in a public school setting. The ACLU believes that schools are not constitutional dead zones, and continues to fight for students' privacy rights, challenging unreasonable strip-searches, electronic monitoring, and searches and seizures of property such as cell phones."