A Hypo I Am Using in Class

[Douglas Laycock]

  I think that when the govt puts up a display in a park, it is the
government's speech?  Who else could be speaking?

  I think that part of the logic of Pico is that when there are 1000
or 5000 books in a school library, each of which has its own author,
no individual book is the government's speech.  So that even though
Rick's hypo parallels Pico in focusing on removal, it remains
importantly different.

  Quoting Rick Duncan <nebraskalawprof at yahoo.com>:

> "Christopher C. Lund" <chlund1 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>   "And, finally, note that Pico involved a school library -- the 
> constitutional obligations on the library were created by the 
> school's duties to their students.  (The plurality's opinion relies

> heavily on Tinker v. Des Moines.)  A school library's decision to 
> take out books directly impacts what its students can read; a 
> decision to take down a display does not have a similar effect."
>
>
>   Hmmm. The school's decision to remove upopular books from a school

> library did not interfere with the students' rights to read the 
> books. The books were freely available in the city's public (as 
> opposed to school) libraries and in bookstores. The 1A evil in Pico

> was removal of ideas from a willing audience to appease those who 
> disagreed with those ideas.
>
>   In my gay pride hypo, the removal of ideas to appease critics is
at
> least as harmful as in Pico, because unlike books which are widely 
> available, the particular gay pride display may not be otherwise 
> available to those who wish to view it.
>
>   Again, I disagree with the plurality in Pico, but many others 
> (including some of my students and colleagues) think the Ct's 
> reasoning in Pico was sound. And if it is sound....
>
>   Rick Duncan
>
>
>
>   Rick Duncan
> Welpton Professor of Law
> University of Nebraska College of Law
> Lincoln, NE 68583-0902
>
>
> "It's a funny thing about us human beings: not many of us doubt
God's
> existence and then start sinning. Most of us sin and then start 
> doubting His existence."  --J. Budziszewski (The Revenge of 
> Conscience)
>
>   "Once again the ancient maxim is vindicated, that the perversion
of
> the best is the worst." -- Id.
>
>
>
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Douglas Laycock
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