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Does the 1st Amendment protect a public employee’s subpoenaed trial testimony that was not a part of the employee’s ordinary job responsibilities?

Whether a public school policy creating a limited public forum that expressly bans religious groups from school facilities constitutes viewpoint discrimination in violation of the First Amendment freedom of speech. Whether allowing the Good News Club to use school facilities for meetings would have constituted a violation of the Establishment Clause.

Whether a public university can deny funds to a religious student group that it provides to nonreligious student groups.

Whether Title VII Section 702, which provides an exemption from Title VIIs prohibition against religious discrimination for religious organizations, violates the Establishment Clause.

Whether a Connecticut statute providing Sabbath observers with an absolute and unqualified right not to work on their chosen Sabbath violated the Establishment Clause.

Whether a public university’s interest in maintaining a "strict separation of church and state" allows it to bar religious student groups from reserving facilities for worship.

Whether a teacher's dismissal by the Board of Education for publishing a letter in a newspaper critical of the Board's allocation of funds violated his freedom of speech under the First Amendment.

Whether a Maryland statute prohibiting retail on Sunday, with some exceptions for food and other things constitutes a violation of the Fourteenth and First Amendments.

Whether a Louisiana statute which compels teachers in public institutions to disclose which organizations they belong or contribute to unconstitutionally burdens a teachers 14th Amendment right of free association.

Whether the Subcommittee of the House Committee on Un-American Activities inquiry into petitioners past or present membership in the Communist Party violated the First Amendment.

Whether an investigation conducted under the aegis of state legislature to determine whether a professor was a subversive person in the state and including asking him for the contents of a lecture he gave at the state university and his knowledge of the Progressive Party violated the First Amendment.

Whether a state loyalty oath violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Whether a criminal defendant's First Amendment right to freedom of association prevents the prosecution from introducing irrelevant evidence of the defendant's gang membership.