(The Center Square) â The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of free speech rights for students outside of the classroom in a decision Wednesday. The court sided with former Mahanoy Area High School student and cheerleader Brandi Levy in the case, formally known as Mahanoy Area School District v B.L., with a 8-1 decision in her favor. Mahanoy Area High School is located in Pennsylvania. Levy, upset that she had not made her schoolâs varsity cheer team, posted on the social media site Snapchat a simple message with explicit language expressing her frustration. The message was captured by a classmate and was eventually presented to school officials, who decided to suspend Levy from the junior varsity cheer team for a year.