Background
The year of this case is 1986. The plaintiff is Matthew Fraser and the defendant is the Bethel School District. This case was started when high school senior, Matthew Fraser, gave a speech that was meant to nominate another student for a position in the school's Student Government Association. However, the speech was highly inappropriate and the school district suspended Fraser for three days and removed him from the list of graduation speakers. Fraser believed that this offense violated the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, so he started the case.
This is a picture of Matthew Fraser in front of Bethel High School in Pierce County, Washington.
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Fraser's Speech:
"I know a man who is firm - he's firm in his pants, he's firm in his shirt, his character is firm - but most of all, his belief in you, the students of Bethel, is firm. Jeff Kuhlman is a man who takes his point and pounds it in. If necessary, he'll take an issue and nail it to the wall. He doesn't attack things in spurts - he drives hard, pushing and pushing until finally - he succeeds. Jeff is a man who will go to the very end - even the climax, for each and every one of you. So please vote for Jeff Kuhlman, as he'll never come [long pause] between us and the best our school can be. He is firm enough to give it everything." |
The background picture is a gavel and a scale to represent the Supreme Court - http://anzfss.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Gavel-300dpi-Small.jpg
Picture - http://studentfreespeechrights.weebly.com/uploads/2/8/0/5/28055695/1994619_orig.jpg
Speech - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethel_School_District_v._Fraser
Picture - http://studentfreespeechrights.weebly.com/uploads/2/8/0/5/28055695/1994619_orig.jpg
Speech - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethel_School_District_v._Fraser