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I found this case interesting because of the First Amendment aspect of the case. Tinker v. Des Moines all started in 1969 when 60 students at a High School in Des Moines, Indiana planned to wear black armbands to school to mourn for the dead in the Vietnam war. The principle heard about this through an unpublished school newspaper article. He immediately posted a ban on the armbands. Despite their protests of this only 12 of the 60 students wore the armbands, and 5 of them were suspended until they removed the armbands. The students and their parents were