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Student body president claims he was dismissed for attempts to allow right to same-sex couple

donal brown March 22, 2012

A student body present of a Georgia high school claims the school administration sacked him for asking the student council to change “Prom King and Queen” to “Prom Court” to allow the possibility of the election of a same-sex couple. The student is suing the school for violating his free speech rights and for prior restraint. -db From the Courthouse News Service, March 22, 2012, by Rose Bouboushian. Full story  

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Minnesota court invokes Tinker in upholding punishment of student for off-campus speech

donal brown July 18, 2011

In one of the first cases concerning off-campus speech of college students, the Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled that the University of Minnesota was justified in disciplining a former student in the mortuary program for her Facebooks posts in 2009. The university claimed the student violated the student code of conduct and gave her a failing grade in her anatomy-laboratory class and put her on academic probation for the rest of her undergraduate years. In

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