A silent protest led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling that defined students’ free speech rights. The court’s 1969 landmark decision in Tinker v. Des Moines affirmed that “students do not leave their ...

Their Des Moines high school enacted a policy in response that any student wearing an armband to school would be suspended. Several of the students were sent home, and their parents helped them to ...

Student journalists are increasingly in the public eye — and in the crosshairs.

With potential layoffs coming to Tinker Air Force Base, the OKC and Midwest City communities are concerned about the loss of so many jobs. Tinker Air Force Base is the largest single-site employer ...

Judge David Barron wrote for a three-judge panel that Liam's shirt was different from the armbands that the Supreme Court allowed during the Vietnam War in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent ...

A federal district court in Massachusetts and the circuit court applied a "novel legal standard and analysis" to a case known as Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District ...

The stops were part of the Tinker Tour, a nationwide effort to increase youth civic engagement. Students from across the metro area gathered in Des Moines to learn about the landmark 1969 U.S ...

SRS Distribution acquired distributor Rising Star Wholesale, Des Moines, Ia. SRS Distribution Inc. has acquired Rising Star ...

Professor Adam Benforado discusses Tinker v. Des Moines (1969) — a high-water mark for student speech — and how student speech rights have been eroded since the decision.

Two more students wore “THERE ARE ONLY TWO GENDERS” shirts on campus and were asked to change. And Liam wore a version of the shirt with the word “censored” taped over “two genders.” After being sent ...