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    Former high school students filed suit alleging their First Amendment rights were violated. Two articles submitted for publication in the final edition of the paper contained stories on divorce and teenage pregnancy. Principal said the stories were a violation of privacy because names of students were mentioned. The students appealed to The U.S. Court of Appeals for the eighth circuit, which reversed the ruling.

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    Former high school students filed suit alleging their First Amendment rights were violated. Two articles submitted for publication in the final edition of the paper contained stories on divorce and teenage pregnancy. Principal said the stories were a violation of privacy because names of students were mentioned. The students appealed to The U.S. Court of Appeals for the eighth circuit, which reversed the ruling.

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    Former high school students filed suit alleging their First Amendment rights were violated. Two articles submitted for publication in the final edition of the paper contained stories on divorce and teenage pregnancy. Principal said the stories were a violation of privacy because names of students were mentioned. The students appealed to The U.S. Court of Appeals for the eighth circuit, which reversed the ruling.

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    JeremyHanson

    MikeJohnson
    EricTande

    ViterboUniversity
    LaCrosse,WI
    EducationalLeadershipProgram

    LegalAspectsofEducation
    EDUC638

    CaseReviewForm

    Citation(LegalDescriptionandWheretheCaseCanBeFound):
    HazelwoodSchoolDistrictvs.Kuhlmeier484U.S.260(1988)

    http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/hazelwooddecisionandstudentpress

    Facts(WhatHappenedtoBringtheCasetoCourt?):
    Formerhighschoolstudentswhowerestaffmembersoftheschoolsnewspaper,filedsuitin
    federaldistrictcourtallegingtheirFirstAmendmentrightswereviolatedbythecensoringofan
    issueoftheschoolnewspaper.

    StudentsinaJournalismIIclassatHazelwoodEastHighSchoolhadresponsibilitiestowrite
    andedittheschoolnewspaper
    TheSpectrum
    .Twoofthearticlessubmittedforpublicationin
    thefinaleditionofthepapercontainedstoriesondivorceandteenagepregnancy.Thedivorce
    articlefeaturedastoryaboutagirlwhoblamedherfather'sactionsforherparents'divorce.The
    teenagepregnancyarticlefeaturedstoriesinwhichpregnantstudentsatHazelwoodEast
    sharedtheirexperiences.Theschoolhadareviewprocessthatconsistedoftheprincipal
    lookingoverthecontentinthepaperbeforeitwasprinted.Theprincipalsaidthestorieswerea
    violationofprivacybecausethestoriesspecificallymentionednamesofstudentsasexamples.
    Asaresult,heprohibitedthesearticlesfrombeingpublishedinthepaper.

    Becausetherewasnotimetoeditthepaperifitweretogotopressbeforetheendofthe
    schoolyear,entirepageswereeliminated.ThestudentjournaliststhenbroughtsuittotheU.S.
    DistrictCourtfortheEasternDistrictofMissouri,allegingthattheirFirstAmendmentrightsto
    freedomofspeechhadbeenviolated.TheU.S.DistrictCourtconcludedthattheywerenot.
    ThestudentsappealedtotheU.S.CourtofAppealsfortheEighthCircuit,whichreversedthe
    ruling,statingthatthestudents'rightshadbeenviolated.TheschoolappealedtotheU.S.
    SupremeCourt,whichgrantedcertiorari(
    meaning"tobeinformedof,ortobemadecertainin
    regardto)
    .

    Findings(WhatDidtheCourtDecide/Hold?):

    Bya53vote,thecourtdecidedthatifaschoolnewspapermeetsthefollowingcriteria,aschool
    maycensorthenewspaperwithoutviolatingastudentsrighttofreespeech:

    JeremyHanson
    MikeJohnson
    EricTande
    1)Isitsupervisedbyafacultymember?
    2)Wasthepublicationdesignedtoimpartparticularknowledgeorskillstostudentparticipants
    oraudiences?
    3)Doesthepublicationusetheschool'snameorresources?
    4)Thenewspaperisnotapublicforum,notanextracurricular,andisacurricularclass.

    CourtHistory(WhereDidtheCaseOriginate?WhereDidItEnd?):
    CaseoriginatedintheU.S.DistrictCourtoftheEasternDistrictofMissouri,ruledinfavor
    oftheprincipalandtheschooldistrict.
    TheUnitedStatesCourtofAppealsfortheEighthCircuitinSt.Louis,ruledtheprincipal
    violatedthestudentsrightstofreespeechbycensoringtheschoolnewspaper.
    EndedintheSupremeCourtwitha53voteoverturningtheEighthCircuitCourt
    decision.

    Peg/Hook(WhatConstitutionalIssueWasBeingDecided?):
    Doesthedecisionofaprincipaltoprohibitthepublishingofcertainarticles,whichhedeems
    inappropriate,intheschoolnewspaperviolatethestudentjournalists'FirstAmendmentrightof
    freedomofspeech?

    Implications(WhatWastheEffectofthisDecisiononthePublicSchools?):
    Itgaveschooldistrictstheabilitytorestrictwhatisputinschoolnewspapersaslongasitmeets
    criteria.Itseparatednewspapers/publicationsthatarecurricularandthosethatare
    extracurricularorapublicforum.EssentiallyitputparametersaroundtheTinkercase,inwhich
    itwasruledthatschoolscouldnotcensorstudentspeechorexpression.

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