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Legal Citation: 484 U.S. 260 (1988)

Petitioners
Hazelwood School District in St. Louis County, Missouri; various school officials; Robert Eugene Reynolds, principal of Hazelwood East High School; Howard Emerson, a teacher in the district

Respondents
Three former Hazelwood East students who were staff members of Spectrum, the school newspaper

Petitioners' Claim
That the Court should overturn a lower court decision holding that the students' First Amendment rights were violated when the principal removed two pages from their school newspaper before allowing it to go to press.

Chief Lawyer for Petitioners
Robert P. Baine, Jr.

Chief Lawyer for Respondents
Leslie D. Edwards

Justices for the Court
Anthony M. Kennedy, Sandra Day O'Connor, William H. Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia, John Paul Stevens, Byron R. White (writing for...