Meyer v. Nebraska (1923)
*Constitutional protection of privacy from government control.
Right to acquire useful knowledge under 14th Amendment, “liberty” provision. Must ask if there is a legitimate state goal. Court concluded that there was only xenophobia, there was no evidence that there was really a problem.
Supreme Court struck down Nebraska law that prohibited teachers from teaching kids in any language other than English in public or private school. “No emergency has arisen which renders knowledge by a child of some language other than English so clearly harmful as to justify [the] infringement of the rights long freely enjoyed.”
*Constitutional protection of privacy from government control.
Right to acquire useful knowledge under 14th Amendment, “liberty” provision. Must ask if there is a legitimate state goal. Court concluded that there was only xenophobia, there was no evidence that there was really a problem.
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