SPIDEI2_MAN__
03-02-04, 07:02 PM
Hear me out because I need some help.
We have a project for our civics class. The teacher assigns us Court Cases that went to the Supreme Court. Then we study that case and argue either pro and con to it in front of our class.
Heres where you come in, I am the Defense. I need your help in coming up with every arguement that can be made by the plaintiff, and help me find a good way to crush it. I really want to win this....
The Supreme Court Cases I have to argue is Hazelwood School District
v. Kuhlmeier Which invloves freedom of the Student Press. Here is the syllabus:
"Respondents, former high school students who were staff members of the school's newspaper, filed suit in Federal District Court against petitioners, the school district and school officials, alleging that respondents' First Amendment rights were violated by the deletion from a certain issue of the paper of two pages that included an article describing school students' experiences with pregnancy and another article discussing the impact of divorce on students at the school. The newspaper was written and edited by a journalism class, as part of the school's curriculum. Pursuant to the school's practice, the teacher in charge of the paper submitted page proofs to the school's principal, who objected to the pregnancy story because the pregnant students, although not named, might be identified from the text, and because he believed that the article's references to sexual activity and birth control were inappropriate for some of the younger students. The principal objected to the divorce article because the page proofs he was furnished identified by name (deleted by the teacher from the final version) a student who complained of her father's conduct, and the principal believed that the student's parents should have been given an opportunity to respond to the remarks or to consent to their publication. Believing that there was no time to make necessary changes in the articles if the paper was to be issued before the end of the school year, the principal directed that the pages on which they appeared be withheld from publication even though other, unobjectionable articles were included on such pages. The District Court held that no First Amendment violation had occurred. The Court of Appeals reversed."
I am arguing for the School (Defense)...what are your ideas...
We have a project for our civics class. The teacher assigns us Court Cases that went to the Supreme Court. Then we study that case and argue either pro and con to it in front of our class.
Heres where you come in, I am the Defense. I need your help in coming up with every arguement that can be made by the plaintiff, and help me find a good way to crush it. I really want to win this....
The Supreme Court Cases I have to argue is Hazelwood School District
v. Kuhlmeier Which invloves freedom of the Student Press. Here is the syllabus:
"Respondents, former high school students who were staff members of the school's newspaper, filed suit in Federal District Court against petitioners, the school district and school officials, alleging that respondents' First Amendment rights were violated by the deletion from a certain issue of the paper of two pages that included an article describing school students' experiences with pregnancy and another article discussing the impact of divorce on students at the school. The newspaper was written and edited by a journalism class, as part of the school's curriculum. Pursuant to the school's practice, the teacher in charge of the paper submitted page proofs to the school's principal, who objected to the pregnancy story because the pregnant students, although not named, might be identified from the text, and because he believed that the article's references to sexual activity and birth control were inappropriate for some of the younger students. The principal objected to the divorce article because the page proofs he was furnished identified by name (deleted by the teacher from the final version) a student who complained of her father's conduct, and the principal believed that the student's parents should have been given an opportunity to respond to the remarks or to consent to their publication. Believing that there was no time to make necessary changes in the articles if the paper was to be issued before the end of the school year, the principal directed that the pages on which they appeared be withheld from publication even though other, unobjectionable articles were included on such pages. The District Court held that no First Amendment violation had occurred. The Court of Appeals reversed."
I am arguing for the School (Defense)...what are your ideas...