RUMSFELD v. FORUM FOR ACADEMIC AND INSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS

Can the U.S. government require NGOs to explicitly oppose prostitution and sex trafficking as a condition of receiving federal funding for global HIV/AIDS programs?

Does the First Amendment require strict scrutiny when a state compels the public release of identifying information about petition signers?

Whether the city of Erie's ban on public nudity violates the First Amendment or is a valid exercise of the city's power to regulate harmful secondary effects associated with nude-dancing establishments.

Whether the court-mandated inclusion of the Irish-American Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Group of Boston, Inc. in Boston’s 1993 St. Patrick’s Day parade violated the First Amendment rights of the private group.

Whether a state may constitutionally prohibit nude dancing in public places.

Whether Appellees' prosecution for burning a United States flag in violation of the Flag Protection Act of 1989 is consistent with the First Amendment.

The Supreme Court ruled that flag burning is protected speech under the First Amendment as symbolic speech and political speech.

Whether the California Public Utilities Commission violated the First Amendment free speech rights of Pacific Gas & Electric Company by requiring it to include third-party messages from a group opposing the company in its own billing envelopes.

Whether the denial of a permit to protestors requesting to camp out in Washington D.C. parks, according to Park Service regulations, violated the protestors' First Amendment rights.

Whether the 1st and 14th Amendments protect the right of individuals to solicit signatures for political petitions in privately owned shopping centers.

Whether the State of New Hampshire may constitutionally enforce criminal sanctions against persons who cover the motto "Live Free or Die" on passenger vehicle license plates because that motto is repugnant to their moral and religious beliefs.

Whether a Florida statute that afforded a right to reply to personal attacks on political candidates by newspapers violated the First Amendment.

Whether a conviction for affixing a peace symbol to a United States flag under a state statute prohibiting flag desecration violates the First Amendment.

Whether burning a draft card as part of an anti-war protest is symbolic speech protected by the First Amendment.

Whether a Los Angeles city ordinance forbidding distribution of anonymous handbills violated the First Amendment.

Did an Alabama law that required the NAACP to provide the names and addresses of all its members and agents in the state violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments?

The Supreme Court ruled the First Amendment protects students from being forced to salute the American flag or say the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools.

Whether a Mississippi statute punishing speech "reasonably tending to create an attitude of stubborn refusal to salute, honor, and respect the flag and government of the United States" or "calculated to encourage disloyalty to the government of the United States" violates the First Amendment