Morse v. Frederick
U.S. Supreme Court
127 S. Ct. 2618
June 25, 2007
"It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate. This has been the unmistakable holding of this Court for almost 50 years" (Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 1969). Although the Supreme Court acknowledged this principle almost 40 years ago, it has had several opportunities to further define the boundaries of protected First Amendment speech available to public school students. Because some courts have expressed uncertainty as to the outer boundaries of school speech ...