Justice Thomas’ dissent was a bit silly. Cooler heads prevailed in this particular case, given its facts.
Actually no new territory was really covered. The Court essentially said that schools can sometimes control student speech outside school and that schools sometimes can’t control student speech outside school.Considering that most of the communications between high school students (other than the vanishingly few times they actually talk face-to-face) is recorded for posterity and is public in many cases there really did need to be a ruling on the subject.
It has long been my opinion that, at least as concerns football and basketball, major universities have been operating de facto minor league sports teams, and they should NOT be in that business.And the day before the Supreme Court handed another win to students, this time college student athletes in their battle against the NCAA restrictions on compensation.
No, the ruling pretty much delineated when the school could control speech.Actually no new territory was really covered. The Court essentially said that schools can sometimes control student speech outside school and that schools sometimes can’t control student speech outside school.
No. This decision simply said that, in this particular case given these particular facts, the posting on SnapChat by cheerleader Levy was protected by the First Amendment.No, the ruling pretty much delineated when the school could control speech.
The opinion does not set any bright lines (what lawyers call black letter law) regarding when the school may prohibit and punish what a student says off campus. It instead notes the factors that, in this particular case, meant that the school had exceeded its authority and improperly punished the student for her social media outburst. The Court specifically said, as quincy noted, that it was leaving it to future cases to sharpen exactly where the lines are. The result does make it pretty clear, though, that schools have to be really careful in trying to squash what students say off campus on their social media.No, the ruling pretty much delineated when the school could control speech.
Both squash and quash work. One of the definitions of squash per Webster's online dictionary is: "put down, suppress". Therefore that word choice was perfectly accurate for the context of my sentence.Or quash ...