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Vocabulary
100
When an executive such as a principal reviews materials before it is given to the public
What is Prior Review?
100
Protects teachers from being sued for violating students' federal rights.
What is Qualified Immunity?
100
A law in California that expressly forbids administrators from taking disciplinary action against students speech that outside of campus that would be protected by the 1st Amendment.
What is Leonard Law?
100
1988 Supreme Court decision that says that school sponsored publications can be censored if issues arise that are legitimately school related.
What is Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier?
100
Defamation by written or printed words or by any other forms such as spoken or gestures.
What is libel?
200
Latin term meaning in place of the parent that refers to the legal responsibility to take on the place of the parent.
What is Loco Parentis?
200
Promotional speech of products or services that is protected on a college campus however transactions or selling of objects is not protected.
What is Commercial Speech?
200
Created explicit and implicit promises of the rights granted to students and sometimes provide rights similar to the 1st amendment.
What is Student Handbooks and Recruiting Brochures?
200
Gary Dickey, the editor of the Troy State University ran the word "censored" in place of the editorial he was ordered not publish. Ruled that college could not punish students for freedom of expression.
What is Dickey v. Alabama State Board of Education?
200
Defamation by oral utterance other than writing, pictures, etc.
What is slander?
300
World event that sparked student debates about students' 1st amendment rights.
What is the Vietnam War?
300
Plaintiff in Tinker v. Des Moines, wore black armband to school protesting the Vietnam War leading to precend setting court case.
What is Mary Beth Tinker
300
States that even though Private Universities have the right to censor, they should not because it retards learning through freedom of expression.
What is Policy Arguments?
300
Ruled a state university cannot withdraw funding from a newspaper even if it editorializes for segregation that violate the 14th amendment and the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
What is Joyner v. Whiting?
300
Reporter's protection under constitutional or statutory law from being compelled to testify about confidential information or sources.
What is reporters' privilege?
400
Discounted Tinker v. Des Moines for younger students, giving more discretion to the school for younger aged students than older students.
What is Development Patterns of Rights since Hazelwood ruling?
400
Determines which student organizations it will or will not recognize by controlling funding by various methods, struck down by Healy v. James.
What is one way universities try to limit free speech?
400
Revision to the High Education Act, a non-binding guidelines for addressing student freedom of expression rights, no student should be punished for engaging in conduct that would otherwise be protected at a Public University.
What is Sense of Congress?
400
Case developed a legal doctrine authorizing analysis of the motives of University officials for restricting funding for student newspaper.
What is Stanley v. Magrath?
400
The control of information or ideas circulated within a society.
What is Censorship?
500
Person who held up banner that said "Bong Hits 4 Jesus."
What is Joseph Frederick?
500
Codes passed by colleges that restrict speech consider offensive to other groups particularly racist or sexist.
What is Hate Speech Codes?
500
Doctrine with three parts: 1. Proof that State and School have developed interdependent relationship 2. If the institution is following the directions of the government 3. Private institutions is performing duties and function that have traditionally been done exclusively by the government
What is State Action?
500
Court ruling that the First Amendment applied to public schools and stated that school officials could not censor student speech unless it disrupted student press rights.
What is Tinker v. Des Moines?
500
An article in a newspaper or other periodical presenting the opinion of the publisher.
What is an Editorial?
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