Rights & Speech
Search & Privacy
Discipline & Punishment
School Policy & Clubs
Juvenile Justice
100

Case protecting student symbolic protest at school

Tinker

100
Case that allows reasonable suspicion searches of student belongings

New Jersey v. TLO

100

Case that allowed corporal punishment in schools if permitted locally

Ingraham v. Wright

100

Case requiring equal access to student-interest clubs

West Side v. Mergens

100

Case allowing juveniles to be tried as adults

Kent v. United States

200

Case allowing schools to censor school-sponsored student newspaper

Hazelwood

200

Case allowing random drug testing for student athletes

Vernonia

200

Amendment argued but not applied to school paddling

8th Amendment

200

Clause invoked in school prayer cases

Establishment Clause

200

Case recognizing constitutional due-process rights for juveniles in court

In re Gault

300

Year of the case about school speech referencing drug use at a public event

2007

300

Year of New Jersey v. TLO

1985

300

Year of decision for the case that bars the death penalty for juveniles

2005

300

Case that found student election of a prayer leader still school-sponsored

Santa Fe

300

Year of In re Gault 

1967

400

Name of the case that ruled student-led football prayer is unconstitutional

Santa Fe

400

Case extending suspicionless drug testing to extracurriculars 

Board of Education v. Earls

400

Case showing the Constitution doesn't require states to protect children from parents

DeShaney

400

Year of West Side Community Schools v. Mergens

1990

400

Year of the case that upheld severe adult sentencing for a juvenile

1966

500

Case affirming the use of race in university admissions

Grutter

500

Constitutional amendment involved in search-and-seizure claims

4th Amendment

500

Who sets corporal punishment policy, according to Ingraham

local districts

500

Bottom line from Hazelwood about school-sponsored activities

Censorship allowed

500

Bottom line from Kent about factors judges must weigh when deciding a case

Age, seriousness