Classroom Material

Classroom Material Summer 2019

This page contains links to materials used or prepared for use during class. It will be updated prior to each class. The materials will be listed in reverse chronological order with the material for the current class listed first.

Substantive and Procedural Due Process

Teacher Free Speech
First Amendment Retaliation Claims

Pickering Balancing Test

Public Concern Speech

Official Duty Speech

Teacher Free Speech Rights

Free Exercise Clause
Free Exercise Clause Preliminary Hurdles

Establishment Clause Material
Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA)

Preliminary Injunctions

Free Exercise Clause - Preliminary Hurdles

Lamb's Chapel - Excerpt from Justice Scalia's opinion concurring in the judgment

Equal Access Act (PowerPoint)

The Equal Access Act: Still Controversial After All These Years (Leora Harpaz) (Feb. 2004)

Public Forum (PowerPoint)

Public Forum Outline

Film Clip From Inherit the Wind

Newdow Cartoon

Standing Under the Religion Clauses

Endorsement Test

Establishment Clause Cartoon

Different Versions of Ten Commandments

America The Beautiful Lyrics

Star Spangled Banner Lyrics

School Prayers

Lemon Test

Lemon Test (with picture)

Letters Between Thomas Jefferson and the Danbury Baptists

State Constitution Religion Provisions

Fourth Amendment Material
Acton Standard

T.L.O. Standard

Probable Cause

Text of the Fourth Amendment

Equal Protection Material
The Pros and Cons of Single Sex Education

Exemptions From Title IX (U.S. Department of Education Website)

Title IX and Exemptions to Title IX

United States v. Virginia - Possible Remedies

United States v. Virginia Quotations

Characteristics of a Suspect Class

Fragmented Decisions

Parents Involved Quotations

Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Affirmative Action Hypothetical

Levels of Scrutiny in Equal Protection Analysis

http://www.naacpldf.org/brown-at-60-the-doll-test

Supreme Court Cases Prior to Brown Involving Segregation in Institutions of Higher Education

Photos of Segregation:
http://images.slideplayer.com/1/239553/slides/slide_50.jpg

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/ppmsc/00200/00213r.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/Rex_theatre.jpg

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/c-7eNRB2_0Q/hqdefault.jpg

Plessy v. Ferguson (1886)

First Amendment Material
Maryland New Voices Act - student press freedom law enacted in 2016

State Laws Protecting Student Free Expression

O'Brien Test

Spence Test

Doninger Test

Layshock Timeline

Chicken Hawk T-Shirt - Front and Chicken Hawk T-Shirt - Back and Chicken Hawk T-Shirt - Front and Back

Drugs Suck T-Shirt

Unprotected Categories of Expression (including true threats)

Summary of Holdings in Four Supreme Court Student Free Speech Cases

Bong Hits Sign Variations

Bong Hits 4 Jesus (original banner now in Newseum in Washington, D.C.)

Bong Hits 4 Jesus (banner as held up by Frederick and other students)

Public Forum (Powerpoint)

Public Forum Doctrine Outline

Principal Reynolds of Hazelwood East High School

Cathy Kuhlmeier

Cake Picture

Cohen v. California T-Shirt

Fraser's speech

Two-Track Approach of United States v. O'Brien

Spence Test

Traditional Three Standards of Review

Tinker Armband Photo

Three Tinker Students

Jeopardy: Tinker

Text of First Amendment

General Material
Sample Multiple Choice Exam Questions

Syllabus

State Constitution Education Provisions

Sources of Public School Law Chart (.pdf)

Wheel of Names

Picture Roster

Online Teaching