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First Amendment: Prom dress put on rack for resembling Confederate flag

donal brown April 26, 2012

School administrators were right to bounce a Tennessee high school student from her prom for wearing a dress resembling a Confederate flag, argues Ken Paulson for the First Amendment Center. Paulson said the school administrators were acting on the reality that the Confederate flag is divisive and could easily lead to disruption at the prom. -db From a commentary for the First Amendment Center, April 25, 2012, by Ken Paulson. Full story  

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Minnesota mother sues school district for punishing daughter over Facebook entry

donal brown March 8, 2012

A mother is suing a Minnesota school district for violating her 12-year-0ld daughter’s First Amendment rights. The school punished the girl for saying a hall monitor was mean. The complaint says the girl’s comments on Facebook could not cause a substantial disruption to the school and was not obscene or threatening. -db From the Courthouse News Service, March 8, 2012, by Glynis Farrell. Full story  

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Opinion: First Amendment scholar finds fault with high school ban on U.S. flag T-shirts

donal brown November 14, 2011

A First Amendment scholar criticizes a federal court ruling the wearing of American flag T-shirts were disruptive and exempt from First Amendment protections. David L. Hudson Jr. argues that the court was wrong in applying the “heckler’s veto” concept to the case that if the listeners to speech create a disturbance and silence a speaker, it constitutes disruption and allows the government to regulate the speech. -db From a commentary for First Amendment Center, November

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Online posting: Student speech subject to greater regulation after Supreme Court refuses to hear case

donal brown October 31, 2011

The U.S. Supreme Court left standing a lower court ruling supporting the punishment of a high school student for criticizing a decision by school officials in a vulgar online posting. By ruling not to hear the case, the Court sidestepped an opportunity to establish guidelines for regulation of student speech in social media forums. -db From The CT Mirror, October 31, 2011, by Jacqueline Rabe Thomas. Full story

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