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 […]
Supreme Court Cases
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 […]
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
The Equal Protection Clause reinterpreted. The NAACP led the effort to desegregate schools through the court system. In fact, the NAACP had filed cases in […]