The case I will talk about is Tinker v. Des Moines. Des Moines. This case concerns John and Mary Beth Tinker who attended public school in Des Moines, Iowa in 1965. Their school did not allow students to wear armbands to protest the Vietnam War. However, the Tinkerers still decided to wear the armband to school. School officials asked the Tinkerers to remove their armbands, but the Tinkerers refused. John and Mary Beth were suspended from school until they agreed to remove their bracelets. As a result, the Tinkers sued their school district. The Tinkers believed that the Des Moines school district had violated their right to free speech under the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. Even though the students did not speak with their own voices, they believed that wearing the bracelets was like speaking. The term used to refer to this is called Symbolic Speech. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an original essay "The U.S. Supreme Court in Tinker v. Des Moines ruled in favor of the Tinkers... holding that the protest undertaken by the students was not intended to unleash violence, destruction, damage, or criminal activity." This case has a big impact on the Bronx Compass. This law would still be in place, there wouldn't be many pro LGBT people speaking out about what they feel. Also, our school wouldn't have a Gay Straight Alliance More Supreme Court cases speaking out of free speech are Morse v. Frederick, 2007 and Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier, 1988. In the case Morse v. Fredrick, the ruling went to the principal accused by the student, of his right to free speech lost this ruling is because “school officials do not violate the First Amendment when they prevent students from expressing opinions that could be interpreted as promoting illegal drug use.” in other words, since it promoted drug use (which was wrong for children) the principle had to put an end to its “Symbolic Speech ”.