Dean v. Utica Community Schools

Dean v. Utica Community Schools
Court	United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
Full case name	Dean v. Utica Community Schools
Decided	November 17, 2004
Docket nos.	2:03-cv-71367
Citation	345 F. Supp. 2d 799
Court membership
Judge sitting	Arthur Tarnow

Dean v. Utica Community Schools, 345 F. Supp. 2d 799 (E.D. Mich. 2004), is a landmark legal case in United States constitutional law, namely on how the First Amendment applies to censorship in a public school environment. The case expanded on the ruling definitions of the Supreme Court case Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier, in which a high school journalism-oriented trial on censorship limited the First Amendment right to freedom of expression in curricular student newspapers.^[1] The case consisted of Utica High School Principal Richard Machesky ordering the deletion of an article in the Arrow, the high school's newspaper, a decision later deemed "unreasonable" and "unconstitutional" by District Judge Arthur Tarnow.^[2]