Students at Granville Junior-Senior High School started a newspaper that they largely produced and distributed off-campus.
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Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System v. Southworth
The University of Wisconsin required that students pay an activity fee to support campus services and extracurricular activities.
Bazaar v. Fortune
The University of Mississippi held up the binding and distribution of the campus literary magazine called Images in the Spring of 1972 because the publication contained two short stories that the University found it to be in “bad taste.” The stories centered on the topics of interracial love and black pride, and the University took issue with the stories’ inclusion of profanity.
Dickey v. Alabama State Board of Education
In 1967, George Dickey, editor-in-chief of the Troy State College campus newspaper, asked the college president for permission to print an editorial that cast members of the Alabama state legislature in a negative light.
Gonzaga University v. Doe
The question of private action was raised in 2002, when former Gonzaga University student Ru Paster, identified in court documents only as John Doe, said university officials violated the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), commonly known as the Buckley Amendment, when they passed on unsubstantiated sexual assault allegations to the Washington State Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Kirwan v. The Diamondback
In 1996, The Diamondback, a student newspaper at the University of Maryland, requested public records from the University after the paper started investigating parking tickets given to a student-athlete after learning that a men’s basketball player had accumulated several thousand in unpaid fines.
Thonen v. Jenkins
In October 1972, East Carolina University student William Schell wrote a letter in the student newspaper about residence hall regulations that contained a vulgar four-letter reference to the University president, Leo W.
Pickering v. Board of Education
Illinois public-school teacher Marvin Pickering was fired by the school board after the local newspaper published his letter-to-the-editor criticizing the district’s funding priorities and accusing the district of muzzling teachers from speaking out against a bond referendum.
High school journalists cover Michael Brown's funeral after addressing legal, safety concerns
After their adviser and school administrators met to weigh legal and safety concerns — and set rules — the students from Ladue Horton Watkins High School worked alongside national news outlets as they covered Michael Brown’s funeral in St. Louis.
Details about student with sex offense cannot be disclosed, superintendent says
Details about student with sex offense cannot be disclosed, superintendent saysA school board in Iowa is discussing where to place a student who is required to register as a sex offender. But because of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, the district’s superintendent will not say who the student is or where the student… Continue reading Details about student with sex offense cannot be disclosed, superintendent says