10 Supreme Court Cases Every Teen Should KNow

What is the agreed upon abbreviation for the U.S. Supreme Court?

• POTUS

• FLOTUS

• SCOTUS

In this case, SCOTUS ruled that "school officials may search a student's property if they have a 'reasonable suspicion' that a school rule has been broken."

• Tinker v. Des Moines Independent School District (1969)

• New Jersey v. T.L.O. (1985)

• Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

• Engel v. Vitale (1962)

This was SCOTUS' finding in Vernonia School District v. Acton (1995)

• "Allowing students to meet on campus to discuss religion after school did not amount to state sponsorship of religion, the Court said."

• "The Court said that reasonable physical discipline at school doesn't violate the Constitution."

• "'Students who voluntarily participate in school athletics have reason to expect intrusions upon normal rights and privileges, including privacy.'"

"In December 1965, John and Mary Beth Tinker and their friend Chris Eckhardt wore black armbands to school in Des Moines, Iowa, to protest the war in Vietnam. School officials told them to remove the armbands, and when they refused, they were suspended."

SCOTUS decided:

• The Court ruled that a Louisiana law requiring that where evolutionary science was taught in public schools, creation science must also be taught violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment because the law was specifically intended to advance a particular religion.

• "Students and teachers don't 'shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.'"

This case decided: "Educators do not offend the First Amendment by exercising editorial control over the style and content of student speech in school-sponsored expressive activities," the Court said, "so long as their actions are reasonably related to legitimate [educational] concerns."

• West Side Community Schools v. Mergens (1990)

• Morse v. Frederick (2007)

• Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier (1988)

• Edwards v. Aguillard (1987)

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