US Supreme Court

Tinker vs. Des Moines is a case about how one school was not giving students free speech by banning arm bands.Petitioners, three public school pupils in Des Moines, Iowa, were suspended from school for wearing black armbands to protest the Government's policy in Vietnam. Her father was going to sue the school district because it expelled his child for a reason that violated the first Amendment of the Constuition of the United States. They sought nominal damages and an injunction against a regulation that the respondents had promulgated banning the wearing of armbands. …