College Speech Codes

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For instance, such policies and codes include a ban on disparaging remarks or offensive language. While these try to regulate the content of the speech, other regulations under these codes try to control the time, the place and the manner in which the speech or utterances are made. While these are justified up to some degree in their intend, there are legal implications associated with the speech codes. The Supreme Court, for instance, issued a directive that asserts that “students are US citizens and they do not shed their constitutional rights once inside the school gate or the schoolhouse”. There exists a large difference in the exercise of these restrictions between high schools and colleges. On the same note, the Robert Corry et al.

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v. The Leland Stanford Junior University, et al. was another case in which the court ruled that the institution had essentially violated the constitution in the implementation of the Stanford University’s Speech Code. The argument in the case was that the code violated the 1992 First Amendment; and the California’s Leonard Law that applied to all secular private colleges and universities in the state (Haynes, Charles (2003) pp. v. City of St. Paul also provides for the same and protects against prohibition of speech based on the content. The “Hosty v. Carter” case in 2005 touched on the rights of expression and free speech for college newspapers.  Campus Hate-Speech Codes, Natural Right, and Twentieth Century Atrocities. Lewiston, N. Y: E. Mellen Press, 1999.

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