Case Study: Tinker V. Des Moines Independent Community School District

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Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District: A Landmark Case Complete Citation Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District 1969 (No. 21). 393 U.S. 503 (1969). United States Supreme Court. Argued November 12, 968. Decided February 24, 1969. Parties Involved in the Case The parties involved in the case were Mary Beth Tinker, John Tinker, and Christopher Eckhardt (Cornell University Law School, 2015) The plaintiffs are Mary Beth Tinker, John Tinker and Christopher Eckhardt who were high school students. (Cornell University Law School, 2015). The additional plaintiffs are the parents of the students Date and Place Where the Case Was Tried On November 12, 1968, the Tinker case was argued in a U.S District Court…show more content…
Siblings, Mary Beth and John Tinker, and Christopher Eckhart protested by wearing black armbands (ACLU, 2015). On December 16, the students were demanded to remove the armbands by school officials and asked to leave school (ACLU, 2015). In addition, students to wear the armbands were punished by school suspension, and were told return to school without the armbands (ACLU, 2015). Tinkers’ father sued the Des Moines school (ACLU, 2015). The Tinkers’ father explained the school was violating the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment rights, which permitted a citizen’s right to have freedom of expression (ACLU, 2015). Tinkers’ father explained wearing the armband was an innocent form of freedom of expression by the students (ACLU, 2015) Issues or Legal Questions…show more content…
The District court based on the decision that the Demo Moines school board was responsible for the regulations (Cornell University Law School, 2015). Further, the District Court could not find any disruptions of Des Moines school procedures from the students’ protest (Cornell University Law School, 2015). In decision of 7-2, the Supreme Court ruled in the agreement of the three students (The First Amendment Center, 2013). The Supreme Court stated the following “It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate…” (The First Amendment Center, 2013, para.

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