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The case of Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier started at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri in 1987. The defendant in the case was Hazelwood and the plaintiff was Kuhlmeier. Kuhlmeier was claiming that the principal of Hazelwood East High School removed two articles from the school sponsored newspaper that when the principal removed the two articles he violated their first amendment right to a free press. The ruling from the first court was that there was no violation of the first amendment and that school authorities may remove sensitive topics from school sponsored activities as long as he has a reasonable basis for removing the information. The ruling from that court was overturned by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals

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