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Student Speech
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California Public Safety Labor Blog
U.S. Supreme Court Shows Its Spirit For Students’ First Amendment Rights
By Mastagni Law
In Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L., 594 U.S. ___ (2021), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of a disgruntled high school cheerleader (B.L.) who didn’t make the varsity squad. During…
McNees Public Sector
Cheerleader’s Vulgar Snapchat Trashing Cheer Team is Protected Speech
This post was authored by Adam Santucci and Daniel Serrano. Adam is the Chair of the Public Finance and Government Services Group at McNees. Danny is a CAMP 1L Intern…
K-12 Legal Insights
Supreme Court Rules on Student Off Campus Speech: Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L.
By John W. Borkowski, Aleks Ostojic Rushing, Skye Parr, Catarina Colón, Mackenzie Conway
On June 23, 2020, in an 8-1 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the Mahanoy Area School District’s decision to suspend a student from the cheerleading team for posting vulgar…
Understanding the ADA
Ability of K-12 Public Schools to Regulate Off-campus Speech
Let’s say you have a situation where you have a severely autistic individual, a person with Tourette’s, dyslexia, or some kind of severe learning disability, all of which can lead…
Workplace Privacy, Data Management & Security Report
Supreme Court Weighs in on School Regulation of Students’ Social Media Speech
By Joseph J. Lazzarotti, Jason C. Gavejian, Maya Atrakchi
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a Pennsylvania school district went too far when it suspended a student from participation in the school’s cheerleading squad based on “vulgar”…
Municipal Minute
Supreme Court Finds in Favor of Cheerleader in Social Media Speech Challenge
It's rare when we see a case involving the First Amendment and social media but even rarer when that case comes out of the U.S. Supreme Court. As many of…
School Law
SCOTUS Gets It Right in ‘Mahanoy’ With Measured Response to Student Speech
By Joette Katz, Thomas B. Mooney
In April, the United States Supreme Court heard argument in a case that could have changed the school law landscape. The issue before the court was whether the Mahanoy Area…
PrawfsBlawg
Thoughts on Mahanoy
Main Friday, June 25, 2021Thoughts on MahanoySCOTUS decided Mahanoy Area Sch. Dist. v. B.L. on Wednesday. Justice Breyer wrote for eight, holding that the school violated the plaintiff's First Amendment…
Media Law Prof Blog
CFP: Journal of Free Speech Law @JournalSpeech
From Eugene Volokh, one of the Executive Editors of the Journal of Free Speech Law, a CFP. He notes that the editors would be ready to published articles as early…
School Law
CAS Legal Mailbag Question of the Week – 6/24/2021
Dear Legal Mailbag: This morning, I heard on the news that the United States Supreme Court ruled yesterday that students cannot be punished for online, off-campus speech. As I understand…