Bill of Rights – How has the Supreme Court protected the rights of the first amendment?
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22nd May 2018
How has the Supreme Court protected the rights of the first amendment?
| Landmark Case | Outcome | First amendment right | How well is this specific right being protected? |
| Near v. Minnesota (1931) | Except in rare cases, censorship is unconstitutional. | ||
| Roth v. United States (1957) | Obscene material is not protected by the First Amendment. | ||
| Engel v. Vitale (1962) | Government-directed prayer in public schools, even if it is denominationally neutral and non-mandatory, violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. | ||
| Pickering v. Board of Education (1968) | Teachers have a right to speak on issues of public importance without being dismissed from his or her position for personal views. | ||
| Texas v. Johnson (1989) | Law prohibiting burning of the American flag is unconstitutional as violating the First Amendment. | ||
| R.A.V v City of St Paul (1992) | Ruling overturned the conviction of a teenager, referred to in court documents only as R.A.V., for burning a cross on the lawn of an African American family. | ||
| Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah (1993) | City ordinances preventing the sacrifice of animals deemed to be unconstitutional as violating freedom of exercise of religious worship. | ||
| Hill v. Colorado (2000) | Ruling that the First Amendment right to free speech was not violated by a Colorado law limiting protest, education, distribution of literature or counselling within eight feet of a person entering a health-care facility. |
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