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Supreme Court Cases
First Amendment-
Case Name:
Case Facts:
Students wore anti-war bands to school, which in turn got them suspended from school. The students sued the school for impeding upon their free speech.
Students Arguments: 1st and 14th Amendment-free speech, they weren't hurting anyone.
School Arguments: 10th Amendment-allowed the school to suspend the kids in fear of endangering other student's health and academic well being
Supreme Court Decision: The students won. "Students do not shed their 1st Amendment rights at the school gates". As long as they were NOT disturbing any other students, they had the right to wear the arm bands.
Case Name: Flast VS. Cohnen
Case Facts: Flast sued because he claimed tax money was being used unconstitutionally, and being dispersed under the Elementary and Secondary Act.
-Separation of Church and State
-Tax payers DO NOT and SHOULD NOT pay for parochial schools
Arguments:
Flast- Pubic funds are not allowed to aid for religious schools
Cohnen- You cannot sue unless the outcome is personal
Supreme Court Decision:
Flast won, tax payers shouldn't have to pay and the separation of church and state
Case Name: Miami Herald Publishing VS. Tornillo
Case Facts: Tornillio tried running for Supreme Court and the Miami Herald would not publish his reply to a "diss" he had received in their paper.
Arguments:
Miami Herald: Someone said something bad, you would want to reply with the same number of space
it's only fair
Tornillo: Since many papers print some articles that have a lot of information, it becomes difficult for people to see a full range of views.
Questions speech and free press rights
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