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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
April 28, 2018
In 2015, several defendants — various UWM administrators — were dismissed from the case because they had not been properly served, and the 7th Circuit ... The plaintiffs who remain on campus are free to try to persuade the current government to re-adopt old legislation or to pass new legislation.
University World News
April 27, 2018
Yue Xin, a student at the School of Foreign Languages at Peking University or PKU, together with seven other students, had lodged a freedom of ... The case shed light on the role of campus authorities and party officials in stemming free speech and silencing dissenting voices at universities but alsoÃâà...
Education Week (blog)
April 20, 2018
Students do not "shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate," Justice Abe Fortas famously wrote in the majority opinion. In a video segment ... The Tinker case is one of 12 Supreme Court cases featured in the second season of "Landmark Cases." There is oneÃâà...
GazetteNET
April 19, 2018
John Bonifaz, a constitutional voting rights attorney who founded the National Voting Rights Institute and is co-founder of Free Speech for People, said if ... Both Bonifaz and McKee also raised the case of political activist Eric “The Rat” Walgren, who in the 1970s sued Amherst over an election calendar thatÃâà...
The Macomb Daily
April 18, 2018
“UAIS is committed to protecting and upholding the free speech rights of all its students. We also take seriously our responsibilities and obligations to provide a safe learning environment for all students while they are under our care. This obligation includes reasonable time, place and manner guidelines inÃâà...
The Macomb Daily
April 17, 2018
The ACLU asks that the school respect student rights as they engage in future advocacy. ... “In this case, UAIS' rules against political speech during a demonstration constituted a blatant violation of students clearly established rights to express their opinions on the critically important issue of gun control,”Ãâà...
Therogersvillereview
April 10, 2018
“If they appear up through the channels to us would we not have to have their permission (to discuss their case)?” ... Burton also told the BOE that she felt SMS students' rights to free speech had been violated because someone removed from their lockers while they were in class posters showing supportÃâà...
Washington Examiner
April 10, 2018
Louisiana Tech received this rating due to two policies found in the school's Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities, and Behavior concerning ... “The time, place, and manner regulations within our policies are designed to support students' ability to engage in free-speech activities in a way that does notÃâà...
Shreveport Times
April 6, 2018
For almost a century, the U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed that neither students nor teachers “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.” Yet, there remains widespread confusion across our nation, and here in Louisiana, regarding the practicalÃâà...
Sun Sentinel
April 3, 2018
In the landmark 1969 Supreme Court case Tinker v. Des Moines, the court decided that there were limits to students' rights at school, but that “It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate,” as Justice AbeÃâà...
The Daily Banter
March 27, 2018
FEC, and defending students' rights to free speech in cases like Morse v. Frederick. Today, in a sharply worded op-ed in The New York Times, he has ... Heller, the case in which the Court codified the individual right to bear firearms. If you haven't read it, I urge you to check it out - he is such a good writerÃâà...
The Rider News
March 27, 2018
This spring and summer, faculty, staff and students will team up with legal experts to draft a free speech policy for the university. Hoping to enact a policy ... “I would hope such a policy guarantees our students' rights to free expression and an open exchange of ideas,” Modica said. “Regardless of what thisÃâà...
Shadowproof (blog)
March 26, 2018
Federal Appeals Court Recognized Students' Rights To Challenge South Carolina Law That Chills Freedom Of Expression ... Sarah Hinger, a staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which brought the case against the statutes, declared, “The court has sent a clear message: rather thanÃâà...
Press Herald
March 23, 2018
Scarborough superintendent says she didn't intend to infringe on students' rights ... FREE SPEECH RIGHTS. The goal to protect the ... Beeley defended Kukenberger in a statement released Friday afternoon, saying that what has been painted “as suppression of free speech is actually just the opposite.”.
ABC NEWS 4
March 19, 2018
Students' freedom of expression and due process are put at risk by a South Carolina law that led to the arrest of two high school students for videotaping a ... must recognize and protect students' rights," Sarah Hager, staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union's Racial Justice Program, said in a news release.
Los Angeles Times
March 19, 2018
Christiansen made his case and, in a moment of frustration, he used an expletive. Yes ... The Washoe County School District, where Christiansen is a junior, issued a statement Monday, saying it supported students' rights to free speech — noting walkouts on March 14 at several of its campuses and that noÃâà...
The Oakland Press
December 31, 1999
A: Students have rights to freedom of speech and expression, but those rights can be restricted if they conflict with the school's ability to provide an ... The case began in 1966, when a few middle-school and high-school students were suspended after they protested the Vietnam War by wearing blackÃâà...
The College Fix
December 31, 1999
What's banned: 'lewd behavior,' anything that threatens 'mental health'. Several days after Syracuse University said it was investigating a fraternity for offensive videos leaked from a private Facebook group, the administration has yet to tell The College Fix what authority it has to punish the fraternityÃâà...
The Troubadour Online
December 31, 1999
Free speech, gender identity, trigger words, critical thinking―all these terms are familiar to American university students today and are especially present in ... Dalton, a member of the Legal Counsel for the ADF Center for Academic Freedom, shared his experiences in cases of defending students' rightsÃâà...
