Battle lines are being redrawn in a First Amendment case on the Supreme Court’s docket. What started as a tussle between teenagers and adults is now a power struggle between
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The release announces Stein filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to “preserve schools’ ability to address cyberbullying and other forms of off-campus bullying that substantially affect students’ education.”
Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L., a case concerning the ability of schools to punish students for off-campus speech.”
The press release states, “But the lower court in this case ruled that schools may never regulate students’ off-campus speech,” a grossly distorted claim counter to any plain reading of the recent court ruling at issue.
In fact, despite Stein’s hyperbolic claims, according to two highly respected constitutional experts, the case to be argued in front of the high court has nothing to do with bullying at all. It has to do with the government’s nearly unfettered ability to regulate and punish students to disfavored speech off-campus and away from school activities, specifically dealing with speech that’s not thre
State of Michigan - Coalition Urges Supreme Court to Permit Schools to Address Harmful Off-Campus Speech that Substantially Disrupts School or Interferes with Students’ Learning
Attorney General - Coalition Urges Supreme Court to Permit Schools to Address Harmful Off-Campus Speech that Substantially Disrupts School or Interferes with Students’ Learning