Courts, Kids, and the Constitution (May It Please the Court series)

Listen to live recordings of oral arguments before the U. S. Supreme Court about the constitutional rights of students and teachers 

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In many communities, conflicts play out in public schools. Issues include prayer, newspaper and library censorship, political protest, drug testing, illegal aliens, and corporal punishment.

In this new set of "school rights" cases, you hear recordings of sixteen oral arguments made before the high court. The tapes are narrated by Supreme Court scholar Peter Irons. The series includes a hardcover book of oral argument transcripts and photographs of the students and teachers. Features nationally known figures, including attorney Kenneth Starr and Justices Thurgood Marshall and Earl Warren. These recordings offer an unrivaled view of the Supreme Court in action and an opportunity to hear some of the most explosive constitutional debates of our time. 

Includes: 

* Four ninety-minute cassettes: Edited, live recordings of the oral arguments and questioning from sixteen cases--including twelve never before published--with narration by Peter Irons identifying the speakers and putting the arguments in context. 

* 320-page hardcover book: Transcriptions of the arguments, excerpts from the opinions and the key dissents, and photos of the students who took their cases all the way to the Supreme Court. 

Cases include: 

Abington School District v. Schempp (school prayer)
Tinker v. Des Moines (wearing black armband in school)
Cleveland Board of Education v. LaFleur (mandatory maternity leave for teachers)*
Milliken v. Bradley (busing for racial balance)*
Goss v. Lopez (due process hearings for suspended students)*
Ingraham v. Wright, School Principal (corporal punishment)*
Plyler v. Doe (barring "illegal alien" students)*
Island Trees Board of Education v. Pico (book censorship in school libraries)*
New Jersey v. T. L. O. (searching student belongings)*
Bethel School District v. Fraser ("vulgar" speech)*
Edwards v. Aguillard (evolution versus creationism in schools)
Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier (censoring high-school newspapers)
Westside Board of Education v. Mergens (religious clubs)*
Lee v. Weisman (school prayer)*
Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills School District (sign-language interpreter)*
Vernonia School District v. Acton (drug testing for athletes)* 

*never before published 

About the Author 
In 1993, Peter Irons and Stephanie Guitton's May It Please the Court made recordings of the Supreme Court in session available to the American public for the first time. Their publication simultaneously delighted Americans interested in the workings of the country's judicial system, and displeased the Supreme Court, which until then had restricted access to the recordings. 


First Amendment Cases (May It Please the Court

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