Speech and Content
Symbolic speech is...
What is nonverbal, unwritten communication meant to convey a message
What freedoms were in question in Rumsfeld v Forum for Academic and Institutional Education?
What are Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Association?
This court case held that in order to exercise prior restraint, the government must show sufficient evidence that publication would cause a grave and irreparable danger to society.
What is New York Times v United States (1971)?
Which case answered the question “does a libel law infringe on the first amendment freedom of speech and freedom of press?”
What is New York v Sullivan?
In Griswold v Connecticut (1965), which amendments helped to establish a right to privacy in marital relations?
What are the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 9th, and 14th amendments?
Justice Murphy created the fighting words doctrine: that the government may regulate words directed at another individual “which by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of peace.”
What is Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire?
What court case ruled that students, consistent with the First and Fourteenth Amendments, could not be forced by the state to salute the U.S flag and recite the pledge of allegiance?
What is West Virginia State Board of Education v Barnette (1943)?
In what court case did Chief Justice Hughes claim was prior restraint permissible if it was pertaining to national security protection, restriction on obscenity, and for the prohibition of expression that would incite acts of violence?
What is Near v Minnesota (1931)?
What court case overruled Minersville School District v. Gobitis?
What is District of Columbia v Heller (2008)?
In which case was Roe v Wade (1973) upheld but upheld regulations on abortion?
What is Planned Parenthood v Casey (1992)?
What case sought to challenge free speech that the state considered “inherently inflammatory” in order to keep the peace and was struck down for it?
What is Cohen v. California (1971)
Teachers and students do not shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse gates. As long as the speech does not disrupt the educational process, the government has no authority to proscribe it.
What is Tinker v Des Moines (1969)?
What freedom was in question in Hazelwood School District v Kuhlmeier (1988)?
What is freedom of press?
What case analyses the relationship between the Prefatory Clause and the Operative Clause of the 2nd Amendment?
What is the District of Columbia v Heller (2008)?
What provision was NOT upheld in Planned Parenthood v Casey (1992)?
What is the spousal notification requirement?
Which case is this opinion from? “Even in a public forum the government may impose reasonable restrictions on the time, place, or manner of protected speech, provided the restrictions ‘are justified without reference to the content of the regulated speech, that they are narrowly tailored to serve a significant governmental interest, and that they leave open ample alternative channels for communication of the information.”
What is McCullen v Coakley
What court case does the following quote come from? "The 'special characteristics of the school environment,' and the governmental interest in stopping student drug abuse ... allow schools to restrict student expression that they reasonably regard as promoting illegal drug use."
What is Morse v Frederick (2007)?
In which case did the Supreme Court held that requiring reporters to disclose confidential information to grand juries served a compelling and paramount state interest and did not violate first amendment rights?
What is Branzburg v Hayes (1972)?
Parodies of public figures which could not reasonably be taken as true are protected against civil liability by the First Amendment, even if intended to cause emotional distress. This was the holding from which court case?
What is Hustler Magazine v Falwell (1988)?
The State’s interest in protecting women's health becomes compelling in the second trimester, and so it may regulate in ways that “are reasonably related to the mother’s health”. Its interest in protecting the “potentiality of human life” becomes compelling in the third trimester, and so it may regulate or even proscribe abortions at this point
What is Roe v Wade (1973)?
In Texas v. Johnson, the court ruled that _________ was permissible speech.
What is flag burning
In Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, can an organization be constrained to accept a member whose activities and beliefs may be against the nature of the organization?
No, it does not
Where the government reviews material to determine whether the publication to be allowed.
Government Censorship
What is prior restraint?
A method of defamation expressed by print, writing, pictures, signs, effigies, or any communication embodied in physical form that is injurious to a person's reputation, exposes a person to public hatred, contempt or ridicule, or injures a person in his/her business or profession.
What is Libel
In which case was Roe v Wade's (1973) trimester framework rejected?
What is Planned Parenthood v Casey (1992)?