Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier
5-4
Prologue Projects
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🗓️ 6 May 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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The Supreme Court has been stripping away students' free speech rights for decades. They don't want you to think for yourself or speak your mind. You might end up making podcasts like this.
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| 0:00.0 | We'll hear arguments first this afternoon in number 86, 836, 836, Hazelwood School District versus Kathy Coolmeyer. |
| 0:11.7 | Hey, everyone. This is Leon from Prologue Projects. On this episode of 5 to 4, Peter, Riannon, and Michael are talking about Hazelwood School District B. Coolmeyer. |
| 0:23.5 | This case is from the 1980s and centers around the free speech rights of public school students. |
| 0:29.7 | In 1983, journalism students at Hazelwood East High School in St. Louis, Missouri wrote a handful of |
| 0:36.4 | articles about some issues they and their |
| 0:38.2 | classmates were facing, like divorce and teen pregnancy. But before the articles could appear in the |
| 0:43.7 | school paper, the principal of the school determined they were inappropriate and prevented them |
| 0:48.7 | from being published. The editor-in-chief and two student reporters sued the school for violating |
| 0:53.8 | their First Amendment rights, but the Supreme Court two student reporters sued the school for violating their First Amendment |
| 0:54.6 | rights, but the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the school, stating that officials there |
| 0:59.6 | have the right to control what appears in the student paper, because technically the paper is |
| 1:04.7 | part of the school curriculum. The five-three majority of the court agreed with the principal, |
| 1:09.6 | Justice Byron White, writing that students don't automatically have the same First Amendment rights as adults in other settings. |
| 1:16.7 | This is Five to Four. Podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks. |
| 1:25.7 | Welcome to Five to Four, where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have radicalized our nation, |
| 1:31.7 | like group chats, radicalizing our nation's billionaires. |
| 1:35.0 | I'm Peter. |
| 1:36.0 | I'm here with Michael. |
| 1:37.2 | Hey, everybody. |
| 1:38.1 | And Riannon. |
| 1:38.9 | Hi, everyone. |
| 1:39.9 | I don't know about this, actually. |
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