Tinker v. Des Moines is a historic Supreme Court ruling from 1969 that cemented students’ rights to free speech in public schools. Mary Beth Tinker was a 13-year-old junior high school student in ...

In discussing the 1969 landmark Supreme Court Case Tinker v. Des Moines ... made by attorney Allan Herrick who represented the Des Moines school board. An excerpt from the oral arguments is ...

Thirteen-year-old Mary Beth Tinker didn’t know she was making history when she went to junior high school on December ... Court decision, Tinker v. Des Moines, which affirmed students’ right ...

That freedom stems from the ruling in a 1969 case in which a group of students wore black armbands to school in order to protest U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. Their Des Moines high school ...

The court’s 1969 landmark decision in Tinker v. Des Moines affirmed that “students do not leave their freedoms of speech and expression at the school door.” Mary Beth Tinker, one of the ...

One of the classic cases, which appears on the AP Government required list, is Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969). I had read the majority opinion before ...

1969's Tinker v. Des Moines court ruling concerned three Iowa high school students who, in 1965, wore black armbands to protest the Vietnam War. School officials had contrived to shut down the ...

Half a century later, Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969) remains the Supreme Court’s authoritative ruling on symbolic speech and the First Amendment rights of K-12 ...

Professor Adam Benforado discusses Tinker v. Des Moines (1969) — a high-water mark for student speech — and how student speech rights have been eroded since the decision.

Half a century later, Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969) remains the Supreme Court’s authoritative ruling on symbolic speech and the First Amendment rights of K-12 ...