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Schenck v. United States:
The First Amendment begins with the words, “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech.” Although the words seem unqualified, the right is not absolute. -
Whitney v. California (1927),
Charlotte Anita Whitney, a founding member of the Communist Labor Party of California, was prosecuted under California’s Criminal Syndicalism Act for helping to organize a group that sought to effect economic and political change through the unlawful use of violence. Whitney argued that she had not intended the organization to act this way and did not plan to aid it in those objectives. She claimed the California law violated the First Amendment. -
, Reno v. ACLU (1997)
The Communications Decency Act was an attempt to protect minors from explicit material on the Internet by criminalizing the knowing transmission of "obscene or indecent" messages to any recipient under 18; and also the knowing sending to a person under 18 of anything "that, in context, depicts or describes, in terms patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards, sexual or excretory activities or organs." -
Minersville School District v. Gobitis,
1935, Lillian and William Gobitis were expelled from Pennsylvania public schools for refusing to salute the flag as part of a daily school exercise. -
Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire.
- That part of c. 378, § 2, of the Public Law of New Hampshire which forbids under penalty that any person shall address "any offensive, derisive or annoying word to any other person who is lawfully in any street or other public place," or "call him by any offensive or derisive name," was construed by the Supreme Court of the State, in this case and before this case arose, as limited to the use in a public place of words
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West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette (1943)
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 Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment protects students from being forced to salute the American flag or say the Pledge of Allegiance in public school. -
West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette (1943)
is a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court holding that the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment protects students from being forced to salute the American flag or say the Pledge of Allegiance in public school. -
Kovacs v. Cooper
The 5-4 Supreme Court decision in Kovacs v. Cooper, 336 U.S. 77 (1949), upheld the conviction of a man under a Trenton, New Jersey, ordinance that prohibited the use of sound trucks that emitted “loud and raucous” noises on city streets. -
Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969)
In December 1965, a group of students in Des Moines held a meeting in the home of 16-year-old Christopher Eckhardt to plan a public showing of their support for a truce in the Vietnam war. -
Procunier v. Martinez m(1974)
Justice Thurgood Marshall in the 1974 case Procunier v. Martinez, “The First Amendment serves not only the needs of the polity but also those of the human spirit ; a spirit that demands self-expression.” -
Lipp v. Morris
This case involves the constitutionality of a New Jersey statute requiring school students to stand at attention during the salute to the flag. The appeal brings before the court two questions. Did the District Judge abuse his discretion in declining to abstain because the New Jersey statute involved here is clear and unambiguous, and Is the statute unconstitutional because it compels an affirmation of belief or punishes protected activity in violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendment -
Holloman v. Walker County Board of Education.
Before the court is a motion by Fawn Allred ("Allred") and George Harland *1288 ("Harland"), two of the defendants in the above-entitled cause, seeking summary judgment. Michael Holloman, Sr. ("Holloman") brings this action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 on behalf of his son, a minor, Michael Holloman, Jr.
