Student Press Law Center staff will appear at the following events during April:
April 3: Close-Up Foundation, Washington, D.C.
April 4: American Society of Newspaper Editor
Tag: legal-alerts
Supreme Court to hear high school student speech case
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed in November to hear arguments in a Texas case involving the right of students to pray before high school football games.
Univ. of Vermont ordered to release some documents in hazing case
A Vermont state judge has ordered the University of Vermont to release some- but not all - of the records requested by a Vermont newspaper concerning the school's investigation of a hazing case involving members of the school's hockey team.
Still no word from Kentucky State Univ. yearbook case
The wait continues. As of Nov. 22, the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals had still not issued a ruling in response to the students petition for a rehearing before the full court in the Kincaid v. Gibson college censorship case.
High Court hears mandatory student fee case
In a case that will have significant consequences for alternative student media
Syracuse Univ. student kicked off campus court after publishing critical column
A Syracuse University law student was fired from his position on the school's judicial board within hours of his column in The Daily Orange, SU's student newspaper, that criticized administrators in the school's Office of Judicial Affairs for improperly interfering in the judicial process.
Students await word on rehearing in Kentucky State University case
A decision is expected by early November on whether a full panel of judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit will rehear the Kentucky State University yearbook and newspaper censorship case.
Missouri and Florida students sue for right to distribute religious pamphlets on campus
It's not just publications about sex, drugs and rock and roll that pit students against school officials
Denver police jail student photographer covering disturbance at Mile High Stadium
Olson was among thousands of Colorado State University students who had just finished watching their football team beat rival University of Colorado at Mile High Stadium in Denver when students say without warning police launched tear gas canisters into the stands and began using mace and pepper spray on celebrating students.