Engel v. Vitale (1962)
Supreme Court Decision. For decades, many public schools across the United States started the school day with a prayer since the days of one-room schools. […]
Supreme Court Cases
Tinker v. Des Moines (1969)
Free Speech in Schools? In December of 1965 in Des Moines, Iowa, Mary Beth Tinker, her brother, Christopher Ekhardt, and others planned an organized protest […]
New York Times v. United States (1971)
Supreme Court Case. Daniel Ellsberg, a high-level Pentagon analyst, became disillusioned with the war in Vietnam and released a massive report known as the Pentagon […]
Schenck v. United States (1919)
Clear and Present Danger. The first time the Supreme Court examined a federal conviction on a free speech claim was in Schenck v. United States […]
Comparison Case: Obergefell
Court puts equality over states’ rights. In a recent ruling the Supreme Court ruled that states’ legal definitions of traditional, heterosexual marriage and a denial […]