Topic
Student Speech
98 published works
School Law
School’s Restriction on Students Wearing American Flag Shirts Upheld by Federal Court
A federal appeals court has upheld a California school’s decision to bar white students from wearing shirts depicting the U.S. flag during the school’s Cinco De Mayo celebration. In 2009,…
Education Law Prof Blog
Ninth Circuit Upholds School’s Suppression of American Flag T-Shirts on Cinco de Mayo Day
One of our recent posts noted the publication of R. George Wright's article, Post-Tinker, 10 Stan. J. Civ. Rts. & Civ. Liberties 1 (January 2014). Considering one of Professor Wright's points--…
Education Law Prof Blog
Educational Outcomes Versus Student Speech
By Derek Black
R. George Wright's article, Post-Tinker, is now available at 10 Stan. J. Civ. Rts. & Civ. Liberties 1 (January 2014). The article argues thatthe rise of computer communication by means…
Civil Rights Law & Policy Blog
Has First Amendment protection for student expression gone too far?
In Intellectual Seriousness and the First Amendment's Protection of Free Speech for Student, Professor Allen Rostron argues that First Amendment protection for student expression ought to be limited to that…
Civil Rights Law & Policy Blog
School district rejects proposal for gay-straight club, faces another lawsuit
The ACLU has filed a lawsuit on behalf of a seventh-grader who has been denied permission to start a gay-straight club at her middle school. The school district claimed the…
Education Law Prof Blog
Wisconsin Student Speech Decision Reverses on First Amendment Grounds but Affirms Adjudication on Unlawful Computer Use
While the Wisconsin Court of Appeals reversed a student’s disorderly conduct juvenile adjudication on First Amendment grounds last week, the appellate court curiously affirmed the adjudication for violating a state…
School Law
SEE YOU IN COURT! – December 2013
CABE Journal December 2013 The new teacher evaluation plan was driving Mr. Principal crazy, but it did have one upside for Mr. Principal. Given the need to conduct so many…
Education Law Prof Blog
Students Suspended for “Pink Out” Shirts But the Real Problem Is the District’s Inconsistency
In August, Emily Gold Waldman's post on the First Amendment "I [Heart] Boobies" case noted how school policies piecing out acceptable cancer awareness clothing from the "lewd" can get messy.…
Education Law Prof Blog
Emily Gold Waldman on Suspending Student for English Class Poem
By Derek Black
Lastweek, there was major press coverage of Rittman High School officials’ decisionto kick a 16-year-old football player off the team and suspend him from schoolbecause he wrote a poem criticizing…
Media Law Prof Blog
Student Speech and the First Amendment
Barry McDonald, Pepperdine University School of Law, has published Regulating Student Cyberspeechat 77 Missouri Law Review 727 (2013). Here is the abstract.In this symposium contribution, the author proposes a framework…