Student Press Law Center:
The Student Press Law Center, a national non-profit devoted to defending student journalists’ First Amendment rights, filed a friend-of-the-court brief today urging a federal appeals court to clarify that schools cannot discipline students for criticizing their schools on personal web pages when they are off school grounds and not involved in school activities . . .
The brief filed in the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia in the case of J.S. v. Blue Mountain School District urges the court to reverse a decision by the U.S. District Court, which ruled that student “J.S.” could be disciplined for vulgar off-campus speech that had some “effect” on campus, even though the “effect” did not cause any real disruption . . .
