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Photojournalists are often faced with tough choices when covering news stories. They must make on-the-spot decisions that affect the way important issues are covered. Knowing that student journalists have rights when it comes to pictures and film can help protect photographers against unwarranted searches and seizures and ensure that the press acts as an independent and objective reporter.

A high school teacher who was removed from her position as adviser to the student newspaper last May, has filed suit against the Stanwood School District, the superintendent and the school principal.

The University of North Carolina settled out of court with student journalists and other media seeking wider access to chancellor committee meetings.

The free press rights of student journalists have benefited from a short-lived legal battle over the unpublished photographs of a crime scene.

A community housing board in Honolulu has settled its complaint that a student newspaper violated a federal housing law by discriminating against certain groups in the paper's classified advertising space.

A student newspaper at Washington State University in Pullman published a virtually blank issue protesting the censorship policies of their adviser last October.

resident Clinton signed into law significant tax code revisions late last summer that will make it easier for students at private schools to get access to their institution's tax returns.

A former high school student photographer was awarded over $400,000 in August by a Los Angeles jury that found the city negligent in not giving back photographs confiscated by police after Robert F. Kennedy's assassination.

The struggle between tobacco interests and federal regulators has put students in the middle of what has become a heated First Amendment debate over tobacco advertising.