The Overhyped Path from Tinker to Morse: How the Student Speech Cases Show the Limits of Supreme Court Decisions--for the Law and for the Litigants

• Main Author: Moss, Scott A.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Colorado Law Scholarly Commons 2011
• Subjects: freedom of speech; high school students; litigation; First Amendment; United States Supreme Court; Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District; Bethel School District No. 403 v. Fraser; Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier; Morse v. Frederick; Constitutional Law; Education Law; Supreme Court of the United States; Morse; Alaska; morse
• Online Access: https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/articles/168; https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1172&context=articles

Each of the Supreme Court's high school student speech cases reflected the social angst of its era. In 1965's Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, three Iowa teens broke school rules to wear armbands protesting the Vietnam War. In 1983, amidst parental and political...