Tinker v. Des Moines Independent School District Constitutional issue: “Is symbolic speech by public school students protected under the First Amendment?” Parties involved: John F. Tinker and Mary Beth Tinker‚ minors‚ by their father and next friend‚ Leonard Tinker and Christopher Eckhardt‚ minor‚ by his father and next friend‚ William Eckhardt v. The Des Moines Independent Community School District Legal background: The parents of the Tinker and Eckardt with the help of the ACLU filed suit
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The Tinker v. Des Moines‚ New Jersey v. T.L.O.‚ and Ingraham v. Wright are just three Supreme Court cases about student rights. The first one‚ the Tinker v. Des Moines is a case that took place in 1965. The issue of this case was the freedom of speech in school. It all started on one day when John and Mary Beth Tinker along with their friend Chris Eckhardt chose to wear black armbands to school to protest the war in Vietnam. School officials told them to take off the bands‚ but they refused. In effect
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Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District et al‚ 393 U.S. 503 (1969) Facts: Petitioner was John F. Tinker‚ Mary Beth Tinker‚ and Christopher Eckhardt‚ high school students in Des Moines‚ Iowa. In December 1964 several students were joined in protesting the Vietnam War. The form of protest was to wear a black armband for two weeks. When protesters arrived at school they were told to remove the arm bands or be suspended. Students took the suspension and did not return to
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Amendment values within students in four cases‚ which together defined the boundaries of student-expression rights. The first of these cases‚ Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District has been called the “magna carta of student’s expression rights.” The events in Tinker occurred in 1965 during the controversy of the Vietnam War. In Des Moines‚ Iowa‚ a group of adults and students objected to the Vietnam conflict by wearing black armbands. Principals in the area heard of these
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Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District In 1965‚ a group of students decided to wear black armbands in protest of the Vietnam War. On December 15th‚ two students‚ Mary Beth Tinker and Christopher Eckhardt‚ displayed armbands. The two students were sent home. The day after‚ John Tinker wore a black armband‚ and again‚ was sent home. The parents then sued the school district. The question at hand is whether or not the students’ First Amendment rights are being violated when they
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The Tinker v. Des Moines case happended during the Vietnam War between 1955 and 1975. Thousans of protests occured againts the Vietnam War in the United States between those 2 dates. In the fall of 1965 in Iowa with a group of 3 minors named Mary Beth Tinker‚ John Tinker and Christopher Eckhardt. They came to School wearing black armband to protest against the Vietnam War. They were asked to take it off or they would be suspended. They disagreed and the school later suspended them because people
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Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School Dist. 393 U.S. 503‚ 89 S.Ct. 733‚ 21 L.Ed.2d. 731 (1969). NATURE OF CASE: Petitioners‚ three public school pupils‚ in Des Moines‚ Iowa were suspended from school for violating a school board (respondents) policy of banning the wearing of armbands. The armbands represented the protest of Government policy in Vietnam. The District Court dismissed the complaint. On appeal‚ the Eight Circuit Court was equally divided‚ therefore affirmed the decision
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Case Name: Michigan v. Tyler 436 U.S. 499(1978) Issue: Do the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment apply to Firefighters in an active Arson Investigation? Facts: In the case of Michigan v. Tyler the firefighters had had legal reason to initially enter the premises of Tyler’s Auction house on January 22‚ 1970‚ which was to extinguish the fire and surmise the start of said fire. Upon extinguishing flames during a preliminary search containers containing flammable liquid were found in the premises. These
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Ochampaugh v. Seattle 588 P. 2d 1351 (Wash. 1979) Facts Ordinary pond owned by the city Popular with area residents for fishing and swimming The two boys were familiar with the pond and had gone there before. Neither boy could swim. There were no warning signs around the pond. The pond‚ while man-made‚ was in existence before the city purchased the land. Issue Was the pond a “trap” or extraordinarily dangerous enough to render it an “attractive nuisance” to children and thus create
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Gideon V. Wainwright On June 2‚ 1961 there were some items stolen from Bay Harbor Pool Room‚ such as five dollars and a few bottles of beer and soda. Henry Cook told the police that he had seen Clarence Gideon walk out of the pool hall with a bottle of wine and his pockets filled with coins‚ then got into a taxi and left the joint. Major people that were involved were Clarence Earl Gideon the plaintiff‚ Louie L. Wainwright the defendant‚ H. G. Cochran‚ Jr. was the original respondent. The
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