Legal Opinion

Mark Stephen Shanley, by Next Friend v. Northeast Independent School District, Bexar County, Texas, Etc.

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided June 29, 1972No. 72-1264PublishedCited by 111 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:

It should have come as a shock to the parents of five high school seniors in the Northeast Independent School District of San Antonio, Texas, that their elected school board had assumed suzerainty over their children before and after school, off school grounds, and with regard to their children’s rights of expressing their thoughts. We trust that it will come as no shock whatsoever to the school board that their assumption of authority is an unconstitutional usurpation of the First Amendment.

Appellants, Mark S. Shanley, Clyde A. Coe, Jr., William E. Jolly, John A.…

2Cases cited45 opinions

  1. Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
  2. Connally v. General Construction Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1926
  3. Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School DistrictSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  4. National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. ButtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
  5. Chaplinsky v. New HampshireSupreme Court of the United States · 1942

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3Cited by111 opinions

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  5. Elizabeth Anna Duke v. North Texas State UniversityCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1973

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