Hazelwood School District V. Kuhlmeier Case Study

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Case Study 3: Supreme Court Case
Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier (1988)
Students enrolled in class Journalism II wrote The Spectrum, which was a school sponsored newspaper of Hazelwood East High, and was written and edited by its students. Around May 1983, the school principal, Robert E. Reynolds received the 13th issue to proofread, he decided two articles submitted were deemed inappropriate and ordered them to be withheld from publication. The two articles contained aspects of teenage pregnancy and divorce, the divorce article followed a fellow student's story of blaming her father’s actions towards her parents divorce and the pregnancy article expressed various female student experiences with overall teenage pregnancy. To lock-in privacy, they changed the women's names in the the articles, but the principal still felt that changing the names would not ensure privacy and he also wanted the father of the divorce topic to have a say on the matter. Since there was no extra time to edit or overall revise the articles, entire articles were scraped from paper. Cathy Kuhlmeier and two former Hazelwood students brought the case to court. …show more content…
The students believed since they could not publish the articles, that their right of freedom of speech and press were violated. Although they weren’t adults, they still felt as if their right as American citizens should apply to them, regardless of previous cases which stated the First Amendment does not always apply at school. The U.S. District Court concluded that they were not violated, so the students appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals. (law.cornell.edu &
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