Describes the 1988 U.S. Supreme Court case between the Hazelwood, Missouri school district and the students of the high school who claimed their First Amendment right to free speech had been violated when several articles of their newspaper were censored by the principal.
Examines the 1973 Supreme Court case in which Alan Bakke charged the University of California with discrimination after he was turned down by the university's medical school, which practiced affirmative action; discusses related court cases and laws; and includes a moot court exercise.
Explores issues associated with the topic of conscientious objectors, tracing it back to colonial times; and looks at the 1967 Supreme Court case involving Muhammad Ali.
Examines the 1969 Supreme Court case involving John and Mary Beth Tinker and Christopher Eckhardt, students who broke school rules while protesting the Vietnam War and were expelled, discusses the right to free expression, and includes a moot court exercise.
Examines the U.S. Supreme Court case involving fifteen-year-old Gerald Gault from Globe, Arizona, who was sentenced to six years in a juvenile detention center after being denied his basic rights according to the Constitution.
Discusses the controversial debate over the rights of individuals to die and presents a number of cases that examines both sides of the issue, both lower and higher court decisions, and the responsibilities of family members, doctors, and hospitals.
Presents an overview of the 1960 Supreme Court case that debated an advertisement place in the "New York Times" newspaper asking readers to support equal rights for African Americans in the South, and includes discussion of the parameters of the case, as well as the workings of the Supreme Court.
Examines the debate over the death penalty in the United States, reviewing the history of the death penalty which was outlawed by the Supreme Court in 1972 in the case of "Furman v. Georgia" and later reinstituted in selected states, and looking at arguments for and against capital punishment, as well as significant court cases.
Examines the Supreme Court case involving Ernesto Miranda and the State of Arizona in 1966 that led to the "Miranda" warnings and the rights of accused persons according to the Fifth Amendment.
