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Student Speech
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Media Law Prof Blog
Rieger on Digitizing the Schoolhouse Gate @UFLaw
Joshua Rieger, University of Florida College of Law, has published Digitizing the Schoolhouse Gate: Protecting Students' Off-Campus Cyberspeech by Switching the Safety on Tinker's Trigger at 70 Florida Law Review…
School Law
CAS Legal Mailbag Question of the Week – 7/11/2018
Originally appeared in the CAS Weekly Newsletter. Written by attorney Thomas B. Mooney. Dear Legal Mailbag: At the end of each year, the English Department at the High School publishes…
PrawfsBlawg
The insidious conspiracy to provoke college students into saying silly things
Main Monday, April 30, 2018The insidious conspiracy to provoke college students into saying silly thingsMichael Simkovic has a blog post describing and denouncing a plot by “a network of organizations…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Fourth Circuit Says Students Have Standing to Challenge “Disturbing,” “Disorderly Conduct” Laws
Steven D. Schwinn, John Marshall Law SchoolThe Fourth Circuit ruled this week in Kenny v. Wilson that a group of primary and secondary school students had standing to lodge a…
Media Law Prof Blog
Ross on Student Speech and Entry Into the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Catherine J. Ross, George Washington University Law School, and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, is publishing 'Bitch,' Go Directly to Jail: Student Speech and Entry into the School-to-Prison Pipeline…
ImmigrationProf Blog
DUMP TRUMP: Latino students win battle to wear Dump Trump shirts to school
Photo courtesy of the GuardianThe Guardian reports that Latino students at Newport Harbor High School in the heart of Orange County, California are fighting power. Latino students said derogatory graffiti…
Education Law Prof Blog
Taylor Bell’s Message Really Is Getting Out, All-Star List of Rappers, Professors, and Others Join His First Amendment Plea to the Supreme Court
By Derek Black
Somewhat in jest, my earlier posts said that Taylor Bell really knows how to get his message out. Taylor Bell is a high school student who was suspended and sent…
Education Law Prof Blog
Taylor Bell Is Taking His Rap Song to the Supreme Court: Will It Finally Address Off-Campus Speech?
By Derek Black
Taylor Bell has filed his petition for certiorari with the Supreme Court. Taylor Bell was a Mississippi high school student who had heard that coaches at his school were sexually…
Media Law Prof Blog
Protecting Student Journalist Speech
Sonja West, University of Georgia School of Law, has published Student Press Exceptionalism at 2 Education Law & Policy Review 130 (2015). Here is the abstract.Constitutional protection for student speakers…
Education Law Prof Blog
Did Fifth Circuit Strike Wrong Balance in Upholding Student Rapper’s Punishment? by Josie Brown
By Derek Black
Last week’s en banc 13-3 decision in Bell v. Itawamba County School Board, ---F.3d. ---, 2015 WL 4979135 (5th Cir. 2015), focused on a high school student suspended for Facebook and…