Title: First Amendment Right Violations - Baldani Law Group
Headings: First Amendment Right Violations
First Amendment Right Violations
Examples of First Amendment Violations
Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 1969
Cantwell v. Connecticut, 1940
Edwards v. South Carolina, 1963
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Content: Congress initially passed the First Amendment on September 25, 1789. It was then ratified by the states on December 15, 1791. For more than 100 years, it was only applied to federal laws. In 1925, however, the Supreme Court began applying it to state laws as well through a process called incorporation. As important as the First Amendment is to the country, it is still rather vague. Because of this, in the end, its interpretation and how it should be applied in different situations is ultimately left up to the judgment of the Supreme Court. Examples of First Amendment Violations
The following are several examples of what the courts consider to be violations of a person’s First Amendment rights. Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 1969
This case was a precedent-setting case that established the “Tinker Test”, which is now used to help determine rulings in current First Amendment cases. John Tinker, Mary Beth Tinker, and Christopher Eckhardt wore black armbands to school in protest of the Vietnam war. The school had learned of their plan to do so beforehand and instituted a policy forbidding it.