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Brown vs. board of education of Topeka
1954Background: segregation, a girl wants to go to school but she can’t because
she’s black.Issue: 14th amendment; equal
protection clause.
Decision: segregation was ended in public school.
Overturned Plessy vs. Ferguson
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Cooper vs. Aaron1958
Background: Little Rock school board wasn’t following the Brown decision.Issue: 14th amendment; Schools needed to be desegregated.
Decision: Unanimously ruled Arkansas must follow Brown decision and desegregate public schools.
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Engel vs. Vitale1962
Background: reading of a non-denominational prayer at the beginning of each school day.
Issue: 1st amendment; establishment of Religion.
Decision: no public school sponsored prayer.
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Swann vs. Charlotte-Mecklenburg
Board of Education1971 Background: school board bussing
kids to other schools to desegregate.
Issue: 14th amendment; civil rights, desegregation of schools
Decision: unanimously voted for the school board giving them broad powers to desegregate public schools.
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Tinker vs. Des Moines1969
Background: students wore black arm bands to school in protest of Vietnam War.
Issue: 1st amendment; freedom of expressions
Decision: court ruled 7-2 in favor of the Tinkers. Students have freedom of speech unless it disrupts education.
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New Jersey vs. T.L.O1985
Background: girl caught smoking in bathroom, then questioned and searched where they found drugs and paraphernalia
Issue: 4th & 14th amendment; search & seizure civil rights
Decision: court ruled 6-3 in favor of N.V. school officials need only reasonable suspicion to conduct a search.
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Board of Education of Westside Community schools vs. Mergens
1990Background: school denied permission to a
group of students from a Christian club
Issue: 1st amendment; establishment clause
Decision: court voted 8-1 to uphold the Equal Access Act and allow for the formation of the non-curricular Christian club
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Vernonia Schools District vs. Acton1995
Background: Acton denied football participation when he and his parents refused drug test
Issue: 4th amendment; right to privacy
Decision: court ruled 6-3 in favor of Vernonia. Drug testing student athletes is not a violation of 4th amendment rights.
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Hazelwood School District vs. Kuhlmeier
1988
Background: principal had two articles kept from publication because he deemed them inappropriate, Cathy Kuhlmeier and 2 students brought case to court
Issue: 1st amendment; free speech & free press
Decision: court ruled 4-5 in favor of Hazelwood. Schools may refuse to sponsor speech & use editorial rights because it was a school paper.