ABSTRACT
In Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier, the US Supreme Court held that minors in the United States could not claim identical rights and privileges as their adult counterparts. In Hazelwood the Court was faced with a difficult combination of issues. The lawsuit was brought by former high school students who had served on the staff of their high school newspaper. The students claimed a violation of their First Amendment rights when the high school's principal decided to remove two articles from the final issue of the news-paper to be published that school year. In Hazelwood the Court noted the distinction between this and another Missouri case in which regulation was improper because the newspaper in question was an off-campus underground publication that was permitted to be sold on a state university campus but was not a university-sponsored publication.
