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The court invoked the First Amendment in cases regulating social media platforms, prayer at public schools, state funding of religious schools, campaign finance restrictions, billboard advertisements, and religious exemptions to COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
This page contains summaries of frequently cited First Amendment cases. Arranged by topic, they cover case law issued by a variety of courts: the Supreme Court of the United States, the Court of Appeals of different Federal circuits, the District Court of several Federal districts, as well as the highest court of several states and particular ...
In honor of the occasion, we created a gallery of nine monumental Supreme Court cases on free speech and free press—all from years ending in the number nine.
Issue. Case History. Three public school students wore black armbands to school to protest the Vietnam War. They were suspended from school for refusing to remove them. John Tinker and Christopher Eckhardt were high school students, and Mary Beth Tinker was in 8 th grade at the junior high.
This is a list of cases that appeared before the Supreme Court of the United States involving the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
This is an index page for rulings in First Amendment court cases by category. By studying court cases by category, we hope you can better understand how real-life issues drove the development of the law around freedoms of speech, assembly, religion, petition and the press in the United States.
Navigate through pivotal First Amendment cases by date on MTSU, gaining insights into legal battles that shaped free speech and press rights.
Schenck was the first in a line of Supreme Court cases defining the modern understanding of the First Amendment. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. wrote the often-cited opinion.
Often referred to as the “Pentagon Papers” case, the landmark Supreme Court decision in New York Times Co. v. United States, 403 U.S. 713 (1971), defended the First Amendment right of free press against prior restraint by the government.. McNamara commissioned a secret Vietnam War study. In 1967 then Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara commissioned a secret government study on American ...
The U.S. Supreme Court this term elevated First Amendment values over anti-discrimination laws and stalking statutes in two important cases. The most far-reaching case, 303 Creative LLC v.Elenis, decided that a website designer who did not want to make wedding sites for same-sex marriages did not need to abide by Colorado’s public accommodations law, passed to protect same-sex couples and ...