Hugo Lafayette Black was an American lawyer, U.S. senator from Alabama and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. He served on the Court from 1937 to 1971 and lived from 1886 to 1971.
Black defends school discipline in dissent from the armband ruling.
“School discipline, like parental discipline, is an integral and important part of training our children to be good citizens - to be better citizens.”
Read the original text (opens in a new tab)Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503 · Supreme Court of the United States393 U.S. 503-526, Fortas majority and Black and Harlan dissents
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Relative to the school prohibition and discipline, Black would sustain the authorities' power and objects to judicial displacement of their control.
The Supreme Court rejects the public schools' armband ban in Tinker v. Des Moines. Fortas finds no adequate basis to forecast substantial disruption. Black dissents, arguing that the decision undermines school discipline and subjects schools to students' whims.
