Byron R. White was an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1962 until his retirement from active service in 1993. President John F. Kennedy appointed him to the Court.
We have documented 1 statement by Byron R. White, in 1 case. Each statement below gives the quotation, its original source and a link to the full case.
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Role at the time: U.S. Supreme Court justice, writing for the majority
Defended or excused
Statement summary
White concludes that educators may control school-sponsored expression when their actions reasonably serve legitimate educational concerns.
“educators do not offend the First Amendment by exercising
editorial control over the style and content of student speech
in school-sponsored expressive activities so long as their
actions are reasonably related to legitimate pedagogical
concerns.”
The Supreme Court split over a principal's removal of pages from a school-sponsored newspaper. The majority accepted the decision as reasonably related to educational concerns. The dissent called the deletion unconstitutional censorship.
