First Amendment Notes

1. What are the 5 freedoms of the 1st amendment?


Speech
Press
Right to Assembly
Religion
Petition the government

2. What is the Tinker Standard?


Tinker v. Des Moines School District (1969)
Doesn't disrupt school/class

3. What is the Frasier Standard?

Bethel School District v. Fraser (1986)
Vulgar or indecent

4. What is the Hazelwood Standard?

Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier (1988)
You can censor student expression, if it has a teaching concern

5. What is the Frederick Standard?

Morse v. Frederick (2002)
He said he was off school property, thus coudn't be suspended
Cannot be punished when you are not on school grounds, or they canot censor you outside of school

6. What is the definition of libel?

Defamatory, it must be more than insulting or offensive. It must actually harm the reputation of another person
Elements:
- A defamatory statement
- Published to at least one other person (other than the plantiff)
- Of and concerning the plantiff
- False statement of fact
- Made with faultFalse statements of fact about somebody.