Case Categories: Teachers' Rights

• Adler v. Board of Education (1952)

  Adler v. Board of Education (1952) upheld a state law that prevented members of subversive groups from teaching. Dissenters said the law violated First...

• Board of Education of Oklahoma City v. National Gay Task Force (1985)

  Board of Education of Oklahoma City v. National Gay Task Force (1985) affirmed a ruling striking down a law punishing teachers for “public homosexual conduct...

• City of Madison v. Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission (1976)

  City of Madison v. Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission (1976) said nonunion teachers could not be stopped from speaking at school board meetings...

• Keyishian v. Board of Regents (1967)

  In Keyishian v. Board of Regents (1967) was an important decision by the Supreme Court for the concept of academic freedom as a constitutionally protected value...

• Meyer v. Nebraska (1923)

  In Meyer v. Nebraska (1923) invalidated a state law that banned teaching foreign languages to schoolchildren. The law violated the Fourteenth Amendment’s due...

• Mount Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle (1977)

  Mount Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle (1977) dealt with claims that a school teacher was denied tenure for his First Amendment-...

• Perry v. Sindermann (1972)

  Perry v. Sindermann (1972) said that public university officials violated the First Amendment when they terminated a professor for publicly criticizing the...

• Russo v. Central School District (2nd Circuit) (1972)

  In Russo v. Central School District (1972), the 2nd Circuit Court said that teachers have First Amendment rights to stay silent during the Pledge of Allegiance...

• Settle v. Dickson County School Board (6th Cir.) (1995)

  Settle v. Dickson County School Board (6th Cir. 1995) said that a student's First Amendment rights were not violated when her teacher refused to accept her...

• Shelton v. Tucker (1960)

  Shelton v. Tucker (1960) said an Arkansas law requiring schoolteachers to submit the organizations to which they belonged violated First Amendment freedom of...