Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier, 484 U.S. 260 (1988)

Legal Question: Whether a high school principal's removal of two articles from the student newspaper about pregnancy and divorce violated the First Amendment rights of the student editors. To what extent, consistent with the First Amendment, may educators exercise editorial control over school-sponsored speech?

Action: The Court, overruling the Eighth Circuit, ruled that the removal did not violate the First Amendment.

Justice Brennan, dissenting, at 32:41

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