Minersville School District v. Gobitis

Target entity: Minersville School District v. Gobitis
Context triple: [Felix Frankfurter, notableCase, Minersville School District v. Gobitis]

• A. West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette
  West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette is a landmark 1943 U.S. Supreme Court decision, authored by Justice Robert H. Jackson, that held the government cannot compel public school students to salute the flag or recite the Pledge of Allegiance, firmly protecting freedom of speech and religious liberty.
• B. Everson v. Board of Education
  Everson v. Board of Education is a 1947 U.S. Supreme Court case that applied the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause to the states and articulated the modern “wall of separation between church and state” doctrine.
• C. Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District
  Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District is a 1969 U.S. Supreme Court case that established students do not lose their First Amendment free speech rights at school, so long as their expression does not substantially disrupt the educational environment.
• D. Yick Wo v. Hopkins
  Yick Wo v. Hopkins is an 1886 U.S. Supreme Court case that held racially discriminatory enforcement of a facially neutral law violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
• E. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
  The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas was the school district authority that served as a central defendant in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court desegregation cases following Brown v. Board of Education.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Minersville School District v. Gobitis
Target entity description: Minersville School District v. Gobitis was a 1940 U.S. Supreme Court decision, authored by Justice Felix Frankfurter, that upheld mandatory flag salutes in public schools and allowed the expulsion of Jehovah’s Witness students who refused on religious grounds.

• A. West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette
  West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette is a landmark 1943 U.S. Supreme Court decision, authored by Justice Robert H. Jackson, that held the government cannot compel public school students to salute the flag or recite the Pledge of Allegiance, firmly protecting freedom of speech and religious liberty.
• B. Everson v. Board of Education
  Everson v. Board of Education is a 1947 U.S. Supreme Court case that applied the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause to the states and articulated the modern “wall of separation between church and state” doctrine.
• C. Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District
  Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District is a 1969 U.S. Supreme Court case that established students do not lose their First Amendment free speech rights at school, so long as their expression does not substantially disrupt the educational environment.
• D. Yick Wo v. Hopkins
  Yick Wo v. Hopkins is an 1886 U.S. Supreme Court case that held racially discriminatory enforcement of a facially neutral law violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
• E. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
  The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas was the school district authority that served as a central defendant in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court desegregation cases following Brown v. Board of Education.
• F. None of above. chosen