🗓️ On this day in 1969, the Supreme Court ruled in the landmark case Tinker v. Des Moines and affirmed students' free speech rights. 
So how'd the case come about?
In 1965, a group of students decided to wear black armbands to school to protest the Vietnam War.
The school board found out, and passed a preemptive ban. When the students got to school, they were asked to remove their armbands and were suspended.
In 1965, a group of students decided to wear black armbands to school to protest the Vietnam War.
The school board found out, and passed a preemptive ban. When the students got to school, they were asked to remove their armbands and were suspended.
We represented the students in a four-year court battle that ended with this victory.
The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that students don't "shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate."
The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that students don't "shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate."
Our voices matter. And the fight to uphold our free speech rights continues still today.
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