1969's Tinker v. Des Moines court ruling concerned three Iowa high school students who, in 1965, wore black armbands to protest the Vietnam War. School officials had contrived to shut down the youths' ...

A silent protest led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling that defined students’ free speech rights. The court’s 1969 landmark decision in Tinker v. Des Moines affirmed that “students do not leave their ...

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Brandi Levy, the former Mahanoy Area cheerleader who gained national attention with the historic U.S. Supreme Court case in 2021 involving her school, is featured in a new documentary about students’ ...