The justices seemed unconvinced that students’ off-campus speech should be regulated.
WASHINGTON (CN) Hearing the case of a cheerleader kicked off of her high school squad over a profane Snapchat post, U.S. Supreme Court justices asked attorneys hypothetical questions Wednesday to parse out what types of speech schools can regulate.
In 1969, the high court ruled in
Tinker vs. Des Moines Independent Community School District that students had a right to wear black armbands in protest of the Vietnam War but said such protests could be regulated on-campus if they are disruptive to school functions. But Wednesday’s hearing centered on the issue of whether schools can regulate speech outside of school grounds.
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By Andrew Chung (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court justices on Wednesday will consider whether public schools can punish students for what they say off ca.
Even Supreme Court advocates can look at a case before the court with their own teenage years in mind. And lawyer Gregory Garre sums up Wednesday s case this way: Mean girls meet the First Amendment.
More than a half-century ago, the court, in a 7-to-2 vote, ruled that students do have free speech rights at school, unless the speech is disruptive. Now, the justices are being asked to clarify whether, in the internet age, schools can punish students for off-campus speech.
The case was brought by a 14-year-old high school cheerleader, Brandi Levy. A freshman on the junior varsity cheerleading team, Brandi failed to win a spot as a varsity cheerleader for the following year, and she failed to get the position she wanted on the softball team too. So that weekend, frustrated and upset and off campus Brandi took a photo of herself and a friend flipping the bird to the camera. She then typed the words at the center of this dispute: F school f softball f cheer f everythi
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U.S. Supreme Court justices on Wednesday appeared ready to rule in favor of a former Pennsylvania high school cheerleader who was disciplined over a foul-mouthed social media post but cautiously approached the broader question of whether public schools can punish students for what they say off campus.
The nine justices heard nearly two hours of arguments in an appeal by the Mahanoy Area School District of a lower court ruling in favor of Brandi Levy that found that the U.S. Constitution s First Amendment guarantee of free speech bars public school officials from regulating off-campus speech. The case could impact the free speech rights of America s 50 million public school students.