The Facts of Steirer v. Bethlehem:
A Pennsylvania school district decided to help teach good citizenship by requiring 60 hours of unpaid community service in order to graduate from high school. Two students took the district to court, charging that the requirement violated the First Amendment by requiring them to go against their personal belief that community service should be voluntary and the Thirteenth Amendment because they were being forced to labor for no compensation which they called slavery. The Federal District Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled against the students. The court ruled that 1) participating in community service was not expressing a belief in its value and therefore the students' First Amendment rights were not being violated and 2) that not all labor performed to avoid legal sanctions can be considered involuntary servitude mentioned in the Thirteenth Amendment, that that Amendment was never intended to prevent states from compelling the performance of civic duties, therefore the community service requirement was not a violation of the Thirteenth Amendment.

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