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Student Speech
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Gender and the Law Prof Blog
First Amendment Law of Student Speech as Protection for Transgender Youth
By Tracy Thomas
William M. Carter, Jr. "Trans Talk" and the First Amendment, The rights of transgender youth and their families have increasingly come under attack. In addition to barring transgender youth from…
Media Law Prof Blog
Erickson and Bunker on Waiting For Mahonoy: Examining the Still Unsettled Jurisprudence of Online Student Speech @m_bunker
Emily Erickson, California State University, Fullerton, and Matthew Bunker, University of Alabama, have published Waiting For Mahanoy: Examining the Still Unsettled Jurisprudence of Online Student Speech at 31 William &…
Media Law Prof Blog
Post on Managing Student Expression: A Constitutional Theory of Student Free Speech Rights @YaleLawSch
Robert Post, Yale Law School, has published Managing Student Expression: A Constitutional Theory of Student Free Speech Rights. Here is the abstract.Courts and commentators write as if the speech of…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Transgender Students and the First Amendment
By Tracy Thomas
Dara Purvis, Transgender Students and the First Amendment, Boston U. Law Review (forthcoming)Suppose that a transgender child experiences teasing and harassment from their classmates, whose hostile reactions interrupt the school…
Tucker Arensberg Blog
School District’s Discipline for Off-Campus Social Media Post Violated Student’s First Amendment Free Speech Rights
Ashley J. Puchalski, Esq., apuchalski@tuckerlaw.com, (412) 594-5509 In re Appeal of G.S., 269 A.3d 718, 722 (Pa. Commw. Ct. 2022), appeal denied, 61 MAL 2022, 2022 WL 2447538 (Pa. July 6, 2022)…
PrawfsBlawg
The limits of swearing cheerleaders and an obviouly hollow victory
Main Monday, July 11, 2022The limits of swearing cheerleaders and an obviouly hollow victoryFree speech folks were watching this Tenth Circuit case, arising from the expulsion of a high school…
Municipal Minute
Seventh Circuit Remands Case Relating to Right to Bear Arms T-Shirts in Schools
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently issued an interesting opinion on students right to free speech in the context of school clothing. N.J. v. Sonnabend.Two middle school students sued…
School Law
CAS Legal Mailbag Question of the Week – 11/18/2021
Dear Legal Mailbag: I saw your recent column about a student wearing a shirt to school with the vulgar slogan referring to President Biden, “Let’s Go Brandon.” I was wondering if a…
Tucker Arensberg Blog
The Authority to Punish Lewd Speech is Limited Once a Student Exits School Grounds
Christopher L. Voltz, Esq., cvoltz@tuckerlaw.com, (412) 594-5580 Mahanoy Area Sch. Dist. v. B. L. by and through Levy, 141 S. Ct. 2038 (2021). The United States Supreme Court holds that while…
ContractsProf Blog
Ohio State Linebacker, Inspired by Cheerleader, Tests the Limits of the First Amendment
Last month, I posted about Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L., a case in which the Supreme Court held 8-1 that a school could not punish a cheerleader for a profane…