Comparison Case: Church and State
A Cross in a Public Space? Nina Totenberg reported on this First Amendment controversy that came before the Supreme Court. It involves a large cross […]
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Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972)
Supreme Court Case. A Wisconsin statute required parents of children aged 16 and under to send their children to a formal school. The Yoder parents […]
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. […]
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 […]