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Student Speech
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Constitutional Law Prof Blog
School District Ban on T-Shirt Violates First Amendment
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A three-judge panel of the Seventh Circuit ruled last week in Zamecnik v. Indian Prairie School District #204 that officials at Neuqua Valley High School in Naperville, Illinois, violated the First…
Media Law Prof Blog
Protecting Student Speech
Azhar Majeed, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has published Putting Their Money Where Their Mouth Is: The Case for Denying Qualified Immunity to University Administrators for Violating Students’…
Media Law Prof Blog
Off-Campus Student Speech and Public School Control
The Third Circuit recently reheard two student speech cases, Snyder v. Blue Mountain School District, and Layshock v. Hermitage School District, in order to try to reconcile opposing lower court…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Third Circuit en banc hears oral arguments about myspace.com
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Today the en banc Third Circuit heard oral arguments about two conflicting panel decisions from its judges rendered on the same day in early February : J.S. v. Blue Mountain…
Litigation & Trial
Third Circuit Splits Itself On MySpace First Amendment Cases — Or Does It?
[UPDATE: On June 13, 2011, the Third Circuit en banc reversed (on a vote of 8 to 6) the J.S. opinion below. More commentary at Constitutional Law Prof here. Opinion here. There's…
Media Law Prof Blog
Student Rights in Off Campus Speech
Jacob Tabor, United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, has published "Students' First Amendment Rights in the Age of the Internet: Off-Campus Cyberspeech and School Regulation," in volume…
Media Law Prof Blog
Julie Hilden On Student Freedom of Speech
Julie Hilden critiques a school freedom of speech case from the Fifth Circuit here.
Media Law Prof Blog
High School Speech After the “Bong Hits For Jesus” Case
Mark W. Cordes, Northern Illinois University College of Law, has published "Making Sense of High School Speech after Morse v. Frederick," at 17 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 657…
School Law
Students Protest Principal’s Policy regarding Pajama Party Penis Pictures
In Indiana, 2 teenage girls who posted pictures of themselves on MySpace pretending to kiss or lick a novelty lollipop shaped like a phallus and wearing lingerie pasted with dollar…
School Law
Religious Music Ban at Graduation Found Constitutional
The Ninth Circuit affirmed a lower court decision finding that a school district did not violate the Constitutional rights of a student when it prohibited her from performing an instrumental…