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Deed Of Mistrust?: The Use Of Land Transfers To Evade The Establishment Clause, David C. Peet
Deed Of Mistrust?: The Use Of Land Transfers To Evade The Establishment Clause, David C. Peet
American University Law Review
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Symposium: The Civil Rights Roots Of Tinker's Disruption Tests, Kristi L. Bowman
Symposium: The Civil Rights Roots Of Tinker's Disruption Tests, Kristi L. Bowman
American University Law Review
This past spring marked the fortieth anniversary of Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, the landmark student speech case in which the Supreme Court held that three students were protected by the First Amendment when they wore black armbands in their Des Moines, Iowa public schools to protest the Vietnam War. Looking at Supreme Court precedent alone, it would seem as though the Tinker tests were created out of whole cloth: the substantial or material disruption, reasonable anticipation of such disruption, and rights of others tests did not have much of a basis in earlier Supreme Court decisions. …
Symposium: Tinker's Midlife Crisis: Tattered And Transgressed But Still Standing, Clay Calvert
Symposium: Tinker's Midlife Crisis: Tattered And Transgressed But Still Standing, Clay Calvert
American University Law Review
This article examines the erosion of the strength of the Supreme Court’s 1969 opinion in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District. Indicators of decline range from Justice Thomas’ stunning call in Morse v. Frederick for overruling Tinker to recent lower-court opinions using Tinker to censor off-campus expression posted on the Internet. The article explores possible reasons for the decline and abuse of Tinker and it makes suggestions for its reinvigoration. Part I highlights and analyzes other indicators of the erosion, decline, and abuse of Tinker. Part II then explores some possible reasons and explanations for the midlife crisis …
Symposium: Foot In The Door - The Unwitting Move Towards A New Student Welfare Standard In Student Speech After Morse V. Frederick, Francisco M. Negron, Jr.
Symposium: Foot In The Door - The Unwitting Move Towards A New Student Welfare Standard In Student Speech After Morse V. Frederick, Francisco M. Negron, Jr.
American University Law Review
This article discusses an emerging legal trend that may expand schools’ abilities to protect their students. It focuses on Morse v. Frederick, a 2007 decision popularly known as the “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” case in which the court held that a school principal may restrict student speech that can be reasonably viewed as promoting illegal drug use. Negron argues that when read together, the majority opinion and Justice Alito and Justice Kennedy’s concurring opinion, permit schools to regulate student expression that may threaten student welfare. Justices Alito and Kennedy sought to limit the majority’s holding to speech involving illegal drug …
Symposium: Tinker At Forty: Defending The Right Of High School Students To Wear Controversial Religious And Pro-Life Clothing, Jay Alan Sekulow, Erik M. Zimmerman
Symposium: Tinker At Forty: Defending The Right Of High School Students To Wear Controversial Religious And Pro-Life Clothing, Jay Alan Sekulow, Erik M. Zimmerman
American University Law Review
This Article argues for broad First Amendment protection for “controversial” religious and pro-life student expression. The vast majority of religious and pro-life clothing is no more likely to create an actual disturbance that substantially disrupts school functions than a peace armband worn during Vietnam, the student expression upheld in the seminal case of Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District. Section I of this Article discusses several Supreme Court student speech cases with an emphasis on their applicability to situations involving high school students who wear “controversial” religious and pro-life clothing. This section argues that Tinker’s substantial disruption test—not …
Symposium: Shrinking Tinker: Students Are Persons Under Our Constitution - Except When They Aren't , Frank D. Lomonte
Symposium: Shrinking Tinker: Students Are Persons Under Our Constitution - Except When They Aren't , Frank D. Lomonte
American University Law Review
The central proposition of this Article is that the school/student relationship is a distinctive one, and that student speakers on school property stand in a fundamentally different posture than do pamphleteers on the public sidewalk. This unique relationship has been recognized by the courts, but only selectively, where the uniqueness works to the disadvantage of the speaker. It is time that courts acknowledge that, because students are “captive” in school for the best hours of their day, and because students have a legally enforceable right to be on school grounds for purposes that expressly include the exchange of ideas, student …
Symposium: Oiling The Schoolhouse Gate: After Forty Years Of Tinkering With Teachers' First Amendment Rights, Time For A New Beginning , Alexander Wohl
Symposium: Oiling The Schoolhouse Gate: After Forty Years Of Tinkering With Teachers' First Amendment Rights, Time For A New Beginning , Alexander Wohl
American University Law Review
This Article will examine how (and how far) we have fallen from the legal precedent and educational principles behind Tinker, specifically the increasingly remote standards courts have used to chip away (and sometimes sledgehammer) the speech rights of teachers. To this end, the Article will consider some of the unique and fundamental characteristics associated with a profession that has at its core the mission of encouraging speech, raising questions, and teaching the ability to think—in short, “expressive activities.” It will also look at how the increasingly restrictive standards do not reflect fully the challenges posed by the advent of new …
Symposium: No Enclaves Of Totalitarianism: The Triumph And Unrealized Promise Of The Tinker Decision , Jamin B. Raskin
Symposium: No Enclaves Of Totalitarianism: The Triumph And Unrealized Promise Of The Tinker Decision , Jamin B. Raskin
American University Law Review
The Supreme Court's decision in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District forty years ago did for the ideal of expressive freedom in America's public schools what Brown v. Board of Education did for the ideal of racial equality. It made a core value of the Bill of Rights spring to life for young people facing authoritarian treatment at the hands of adult officials running their school systems. By privileging the right of students to engage in passionate political communication over the school's interest in maintaining discipline or the community’s interest in maintaining pro-war consensus, the Tinker decision was …
Enacting A Reasonable Federal Shield Law: A Reply To Professors Clymer And Eliason, James Thomas Tucker, Wermiel
Enacting A Reasonable Federal Shield Law: A Reply To Professors Clymer And Eliason, James Thomas Tucker, Wermiel
American University Law Review
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The Problems With The Reporter's Privilege, Eliason D. Eliason
The Problems With The Reporter's Privilege, Eliason D. Eliason
American University Law Review
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Deep Background: Journalists, Sources, And The Perils Of Leaking, William E. Lee
Deep Background: Journalists, Sources, And The Perils Of Leaking, William E. Lee
American University Law Review
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Speaking Against Norms: Public Discourse And The Economy Of Racialization In The Workplace, Terry Smith
Speaking Against Norms: Public Discourse And The Economy Of Racialization In The Workplace, Terry Smith
American University Law Review
Free speech controversies erupt from reactions to outlier voices, and these voices are often those of subordinated citizens such as racial minorities. Employing the tools of narrative, interviews with litigants and subjects, and interdisciplinary analysis of case law, Professor Terry Smith probes whether the social inequality of government employees of color affects the rigor of the First Amendment protection afforded their speech. Professor Smith argues that all public sector employees lack sufficient protection because their speech typically does not receive the highest constitutional scrutiny and because of the Supreme Court's recent decision in Garcetti v. Ceballos, which stripped public sector …
Arbitrary And F^@#$*! Capricious: An Analysis Of The Second Circuit's Rejection Of The Fcc's Fleeting Expletive Regulation In Fox Television Stations, Inc. V. Fcc (2007), Justin Winquist
American University Law Review
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Resolved, Or Is It? The First Amendment And Giving Money To Terrorists, Jeff Breinholt
Resolved, Or Is It? The First Amendment And Giving Money To Terrorists, Jeff Breinholt
American University Law Review
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The Constitutional Right To Watch Television: Analyzing The Digital Switchover In The Context Of The First Amendment , Eugene Ho
American University Law Review
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A Proposal To Rescue New York Times V. Sullivan By Promoting A Responsible Press, Benjamin Barron
A Proposal To Rescue New York Times V. Sullivan By Promoting A Responsible Press, Benjamin Barron
American University Law Review
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Endorsing Religion: Drug Courts And The 12-Step Recovery Support Program, Emily M. Gallas
Endorsing Religion: Drug Courts And The 12-Step Recovery Support Program, Emily M. Gallas
American University Law Review
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Equal Justice Under The Law: Why Iolta Programs Do Not Violate The First Amendment, Hillary A. Webber
Equal Justice Under The Law: Why Iolta Programs Do Not Violate The First Amendment, Hillary A. Webber
American University Law Review
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Disfavored Speech About Favored Rights: Hill V. Colorado, The Vanishing Public Forum And The Need For An Objective Speech Discrimination Test, Jamin B. Raskin, Clark L. Leblanc
Disfavored Speech About Favored Rights: Hill V. Colorado, The Vanishing Public Forum And The Need For An Objective Speech Discrimination Test, Jamin B. Raskin, Clark L. Leblanc
American University Law Review
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"Reparative" Therapy: Whether Parental Attempts To Change A Child's Sexual Orientation Can Legally Constitute Child Abuse , Karolyn Ann Hicks
"Reparative" Therapy: Whether Parental Attempts To Change A Child's Sexual Orientation Can Legally Constitute Child Abuse , Karolyn Ann Hicks
American University Law Review
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Overcoming Overbreadth: Facial Challenges And The Valid Rule Requirement , Marc E. Isserles
Overcoming Overbreadth: Facial Challenges And The Valid Rule Requirement , Marc E. Isserles
American University Law Review
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Renov. Aclu: Insulating The Internet, The First Amendment, And The Marketplaceof Ideas , Stephen C. Jacques
Renov. Aclu: Insulating The Internet, The First Amendment, And The Marketplaceof Ideas , Stephen C. Jacques
American University Law Review
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Do You Need A Lawyer? You May Have To Wait 30 Days: The Supreme Court Went Too Far In Florida Bar V. Went For It, Inc. , Daniel L. Zelenko
Do You Need A Lawyer? You May Have To Wait 30 Days: The Supreme Court Went Too Far In Florida Bar V. Went For It, Inc. , Daniel L. Zelenko
American University Law Review
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The Arts: A Traditional Sphere Of Free Expression? First Amendment Implications Of Government Funding To The Arts In The Aftermath Of Rust V. Sullivan , Thomas P. Leff
The Arts: A Traditional Sphere Of Free Expression? First Amendment Implications Of Government Funding To The Arts In The Aftermath Of Rust V. Sullivan , Thomas P. Leff
American University Law Review
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The Arts: A Traditional Sphere Of Free Expression? First Amendment Implications Of Government Funding To The Arts In The Aftermath Of Rust V. Sullivan , Thomas P. Leff
The Arts: A Traditional Sphere Of Free Expression? First Amendment Implications Of Government Funding To The Arts In The Aftermath Of Rust V. Sullivan , Thomas P. Leff
American University Law Review
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Our Conflicting Judgements About Pornography, Kent Greenfield
Our Conflicting Judgements About Pornography, Kent Greenfield
American University Law Review
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