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Freedom of speech cases
Gilles v. Torgersen (FindLaw)
Itinerant preacher lacks standing to raise his objection because he has not been prevented from preaching at Virginia Tech on account of his inability to secure sponsorship.
Rosenberger v. Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia (FindLaw)
To obey the establishment clause, it is not necessary for a university to deny eligibility to student publications because of their viewpoint.
Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System v. Southworth (FindLaw)
The First Amendment permits a public university to charge its students an activity fee used to fund a program to facilitate extracurricular student speech, provided that the program is viewpoint neutral.
Keyishian v. Board of Regents (FindLaw)
Academic freedom is a special concern of the First Amendment, which does not tolerate laws that cast a pall of orthodoxy over the classroom.
Papish v. University of Missouri Curators (FindLaw)
Expulsion of student for distributing on campus a publication assertedly containing "indecent speech" proscribed by a bylaw of a state university's Board of Curators held an impermissible violation of her First Amendment free speech rights since the mere dissemination of ideas on a state university campus cannot be proscribed in the name of "conventions of decency."
Freedom of speech resources
Blacksburg Municipal Code on Demonstrations and Picketing (PDF)
Town law regulating time, place and manner of parades, demonstrations and pickets.
First Amendment Center: Free Speech on public college campuses
A comprehensive look at the issues and cases affecting freedom of speech on campuses nationwide, from speech codes to art controversies.
