The case I am going to talk about is the case of Tinker v. Des Moines. This case concerns John and Mary Beth Tinker who attended a public school in Des Moines, Iowa in 1965. Their school did not allow students to wear armbands to protest the Vietnam War. However, the Tinkers still decided to wear armbands to school. School officials asked the Tinkers to remove their armbands, but the Tinkers refused. John and Mary Beth were suspended from school until they agreed to remove the armbands. As a result, the Tinkers took their school district to court. The Tinkers believed that the Des Moines school district had violated their right to free speech under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Even though the students didn't speak with their voices, they thought that wearing armbands was like speaking. The term in which this is mentioned is called symbolic speech. Say no to plagiarism. Get a custom essay on “Why Violent Video Games Should Not Be Banned”?Get the original essay “The Supreme Court of the United States, in Tinker v. Des Moines, ruled in favor of the Tinkers... affirming that the protest undertaken by the students did not intend to cause violence, destruction, damage or criminal activity. » This case greatly affects the Bronx Compass. If this law were still in effect, there wouldn't be many pro-LGBT people speaking openly about how they feel. Our school would not have a Gay Straight Alliance either. Other Supreme Court cases that speak to free speech are Morse v. Frederick, 2007 and Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier, 1988. In Morse v. Fredrick, the decision was given to the principal who was accused by the student, of their right to freedom of expression. The reason he lost that decision is because "school officials do not violate the First Amendment when they prevent students from expressing views that could be construed as promoting illegal drug use." in other words, because it promoted drug use (which is bad for children), the principle had to put an end to its "symbolic discourse ». ”.