tinker-standard

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-1143 D. A., a Minor, By and Through his Mother, B. A., et al. v. Tri County Area Schools, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-04-01 Pending first-amendment fraser-exception free-speech political-expression student-speech tinker-standard Students have a First Amendment right to wear political apparel to school unless it causes substantial disruption. Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Cmty. S…
25-831 C. S., by Her Next Friend, Adam Stroub v. Craig McCrumb, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-01-13 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived disruption-test first-amendment free-speech school-regulation student-speech tinker-standard Is post hoc speculation about emotional harm that speech could cause to other students insufficient to meet Tinker's "substantial disruption" standard…
24-410 L. M., a Minor, By and Through His Father and Stepmother and Natural Guardians, Christopher and Susan Morrison v. Town of Middleborough, Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit 2024-10-11 Denied Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (12) first-amendment ideological-speech personal-identity school-censorship student-speech tinker-standard L.M. is a student whose public school promoted the viewpoint that sex and gender are limitless, based on personal identity, and have no biological fou…
24A161 L.M., a Minor By and Through His Father and Stepmother and Natural Guardians, Christopher and Susan Morrison v. Town of Middleborough, Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit 2024-08-09 Presumed Complete first-amendment free-speech off-campus-speech school-discipline student-speech tinker-standard Question not identified.
20-920 Jeremy Collins v. Rebecca Putt, in Her Individual and Official Capacity, et al. Second Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response Waived academic-freedom college-classroom college-speech constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech hazelwood-v-kuhlmeier tinker-standard tinker-v-des-moines viewpoint-discrimination 1. Whether or not viewpoint discrimination in a college classroom is permissible under the Supreme Court's ruling in Hazelwood Sch. Dist. v. Kuhlmeier…