1st Amendment Court Cases
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16 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Near v. Minnesota | The newspaper can not be censored in advance. They have the right to print any information. |
| Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District | Students can protest the war in peaceful means, as long as it doesn't interfer with normal class. |
| Engel v. Vitale | Banned formal prayer in schools. |
| Schenck v United States | Supreme court decides that any avtions taken that present a "clear and prestent danger" to the public. |
| Gitlow v New York | The Supreme Court applied protection of free speech to the state. |
| Texas v. Johnson | The right to burn an American Flag, free expression. |
| New York Times v. Sullivan | Court stated that the First Amendment protected all statements about public officials, unless the lies with the intent to defame. |
| Miller v. California | Obsenity, obesnity is not in the area of protected speech. It is up to the community. |
| Abington School District v. Schempp | Struck down a Pennsylvania law requiring that each public school day open with Bible reading. |
| Village of Skokie vs. National Socialist Party | Supreme Court ruled that an extremist political party could not be prohibited from marching peacefully, simply because of the content of their message. |
| Cantwell v. Connecticut | Entitles free speech in a public manner, dealing mostly with door to door/religion. |
| Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah | Free exercise of religion. Animal sacifice. |
| Buckley v. Valeo | Has been overturned. You only can dontate a certain amount of money to a campaign. |
| Reno v. ACLU | Has to do with the internet censorship! Went to place censorship on the internet. Was blocked. |
| Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier | Yes and no. The school newspaper can publish what they see fit, if they have not been reviewed before. |
| Brandenburg v. Ohio | Freedom of speech. It created a two-pronged system. If it was specifically saying to cause harm, it was not free speech. |
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