Read the scenario. A group of middle school students have worn large green buttons on their jackets to protest government failure to clean up a polluted site near the school. The principal told them to remove the buttons, and they refused. The principal suspended the students for a week. Which Supreme Court case supports the students’ right to wear the buttons at school?
Some people consider Griswold v. Connecticut to be an example of judicial activism because it
The US Supreme Court is the
In which case did the Warren Court rule on whether public schools could require prayer?
In which case did the Warren Court establish a constitutional right to privacy?
The US Supreme Court is the
What is the relationship between the Supreme Court and the lower courts?
In Engel v. Vitale, the Supreme Court decided that prayer in school
Read the excerpt from the Tinker v. Des Moines US Supreme Court decision in 1969. These petitioners merely went about their ordained rounds in school. Their deviation consisted only in wearing on their sleeve a band of black cloth, not more than two inches wide. They wore it to exhibit their disapproval of the Vietnam hostilities and their advocacy of a truce, to make their views known, and, by their example, to influence others to adopt them. They neither interrupted school activities nor sought to intrude in the school affairs or the lives of others. They caused discussion outside of the classrooms, but no interference with work and no disorder. In the circumstances, our Constitution does not permit officials of the State to deny their form of expression.What did Mary Beth and John Tinker do at school that was found to be a protected form of expression by the Supreme Court?
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