free speech rights in schools

• Vast dangers in a small place: political scientist Hadley Arkes argues for the free-speech rights of Christian students in law schools.

In ordinary times, or in earlier days, when the judges were more clear-headed, the case of Christian Legal Society v. Martinez would have been, as the...

• First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
• Nbr. 2010, January 2010

• Student's Rights/Free Speech

... case involving students and the public schools, the idea that students had any right to free spee...

• Gale Encyclopedia of Everyday Law
• Education

• Students Expelled Over Facebook Posts

INDIANAPOLIS - Three eighth-graders from northwest Indiana who say they were expelled after joking on Facebook about which of their classmates they would like to kill asked a federal judge Wednesday to order the district to allow them to return to school. The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana filed a lawsuit on behalf of the three 14-year-old girls in federal court in Hammond, claiming that Griffith Public Schools violated the students' free- speech rights.

• Charleston Daily Mail
• April 26, 2012

• Morse v. Frederick, 551 U.S. (2007)

... and Morse had violated his First Amendment rights. The District Court granted petitioners summary ju... that they had not infringed Frederick's speech rights. The Ninth Circuit reversed. Accepting that.... . Held: Because schools may take steps to safeguard those entrusted to the... drug abuse, see, e.g., the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1994, and petitione...

• U.S. Supreme Court

• Schools Can't Bar Recruiters, Court Says

WASHINGTON -- In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that colleges and universities that accept federal funding cannot bar military recruiters from their campuses because they object to the Pentagon's discriminatory treatment of gays in the armed services. In an 8-0 decision, the top court decisively rejected the claim by a group of law schools and faculty members that their First Amendment rights to free speech -- in opposing the Defense Department's "don't ask, don't tell" policy toward gays -- were being violated by allowing the recruiters on campus. The high court's ruling reversed an appellate court decision that held that the schools had the right to block the recruiters because they opposed the military's policy.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• March 07, 2006

• Court to Consider School Bans On Recruiters

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to consider whether the government can withhold federal funds from colleges that bar military recruiters, wading into a dispute over campus free speech rights. The justices will review in their next term beginning in October a ruling allowing law schools to restrict recruiters as a way of protesting the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy excluding openly gay people from military service.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• May 03, 2005

• Colleges Suing for Right to Ban Army Recruiters; High Court Case Pits Federal Funds Against Gay Ban

WASHINGTON The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to consider whether the government can withhold federal funds from colleges that bar military recruiters, wading into a dispute over campus free speech rights. The justices will review in their next term beginning in October a ruling allowing law schools to restrict recruiters as a way of protesting the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy excluding openly gay people from military service.

• The Columbian
• May 03, 2005

• Adoption of Google Apps Program Discriminates Against the Blind

National Federation of the Blind Asks Department of Justice to Investigate Schools Across the Country BALTIMORE, March 15, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Federation of the Blind (NFB), the oldest and largest nationwide organization of blind people in the United States, today requested that the United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, investigate civil rights violations committed by New York University (NYU) and Northwestern University against blind faculty and students. The NFB made the request because the schools have adopted technology that is not accessible to the blind. Both universities have recently adopted Google Apps for Education as a means of providing e-mail and collaboration tools to students and faculty. Google Apps for Education is a free s...

• U.S. Newswire
• March 15, 2011

• Court Considers Whether Violent Poetry Is Criminal: ; California Justices Review Boy's Prose That Included Threat

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court is deciding whether to throw out the conviction of a 15-year-old boy who served 100 days in juvenile hall for writing a poem that included a threat to kill his fellow students. The case weighs free speech rights against the government's responsibility to provide safety in schools after campus shootings nationwide.

• Charleston Daily Mail
• May 28, 2004

• Court Puts Military Recruiter Law On Hold; Panel Says Government's Threat to Withhold Funding Amounted to Compelling the Schools to Take Part in Speech They Didn't Agree With

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A federal appeals court on Monday barred the Defense Department from withholding funds from colleges and universities that deny access to military recruiters. The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said a decade-old federal law which allows withholding the funds infringes on the free speech rights of schools that wish to limit on-campus recruiting in response to the military's ban on homosexuals.

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• November 30, 2004