In my legal case brief, I discussed the Hazelwood School District vs. Kuhlmeier case. The students at Hazelwood East High School, who ran the school newspaper sued the school. They sued over the fact that the principal had canceled the publication of their recently written articles before they were to be edited and published. The first court took the school district’s side. The students appealed the case and won. After the student’s victory, the school district appealed and the case found its way to the Supreme Court. In a five to three decision, the Supreme Court ruled in favor for the Hazelwood School District, believing the the students’ First Amendment rights were not violated.

This court case and decision had a neutral impact on me. I personally love to write and read; seeing people’s work and rejecting it to avoid “negative” opinions and statements is ridiculous. This school newspaper is written and run by the students of the school not administration, the staff, the mice who roam from nine to five, nor the custodial staff. This a way of students …show more content…
Let’s say that a student writes about Anonymous who is telling his or her story about living with depression or seeking help when going through a family crisis. One of the school’s administrators stops by and skims through their articles and immediately tells them they cannot continue or publish these articles. The ifs, ands, and buts fly out of the students’ mouths. Having this happen today, he or she could bring up the Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier case, and talk about the court’s decision to give school’s the right to limit some student expression and how this action does not violate their First Amendment rights. The students have to listen to this and start all over. Having the court decision implemented, the students themselves can not