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Hertz, Lica – Journal of Student Affairs, New York University, 2020
College students have a widespread history of exercising their rights to free speech through protest as a means of expressing displeasure with the status quo. While some administrators consider it a disruption to academic learning on college campuses, extensive research has found that student activism as a form of involvement on campus lends…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Rights, Freedom of Speech, Activism
Abrams, J. Marc; Goodman, S. Mark – 1988
A student's right to freedom of expression was well-protected by twenty years of legal history until the United States Supreme Court in its 1988 decision Hazelwood School District, et al. v. Kuhlmeier, et al. sharply limited this right by approving a school district's censorship of a high school newspaper. Prior to the Kuhlmeier decision courts…
Descriptors: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation
Adam, Hilary; Martinez, Chris – 1987
This paper examines four issues related to religion and the public schools: (1) released-time education; (2) variations in interpretation of court decisions; (3) teacher attitudes toward religious instruction; and (4) freedom of religious expression. Released-time education programs were held to be constitutional in "Zorach v. Clauson."…
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation
Van Slyke, Judy K. – 1982
Disclosure of information to the investing public is a primary purpose of federal regulation of the securities industry and one of the primary duties and responsibilities of financial public relations practitioners. Disclosure requirements are numerous, with most mandating publicly held corporations to disclose information. Some requirements,…
Descriptors: Business, Business Responsibility, Disclosure, Federal Regulation
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. – 1990
This section of the proceedings is comprised of 11 papers dealing with the relationship between media and the law. Papers include: "Equal before the Law: Three Media Myths of the American Legal System" (Henry Itkin); "The Role of Senator Albert Gore, Jr. in Satellite/Cable Legislation" (Michael B. Doyle); "The Law of…
Descriptors: Cable Television, Censorship, Communications Satellites, Court Litigation
Perry, Douglas – 2000
During inclement weather in Memphis, Tennessee in February 1968, two separate incidents caused black sanitation workers to strike for job safety, better wages and benefits, and union recognition. Mayor Henry Loeb was unsympathetic and opposed to the union. Martin Luther King agreed to lend his support to the sanitation workers and spoke at a rally…
Descriptors: Activism, Black Leadership, Citizen Participation, Civil Rights
United States Supreme Court, Washington, DC. – 2003
This legal document asserts that the judgement of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Grutter v. Bollinger (No. 02-241) and the order of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan in Gratz v. Bollinger (No. 02-516) should be affirmed. This brief, filed by five highly selective private universities…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Affirmative Action, College Admission, Court Litigation