Student's Free Speech Case May Lead To Legislation
In his ruling on a pioneering Internet free speech case last month, U.S. District Judge Mark R. Kravitz offered something of a plea to higher courts: Revisit the boundaries of free speech for students.
Kravitz was siding with Burlington school administrators accused of violating the First Amendment rights of a student they disciplined for a blog post she wrote off school grounds. And he offered an argument for why, in the Internet age, the old ...
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I am amazed that this is an issue. really well thought out: "Off-campus speech can become on-campus speech with the click of a mouse." But the, under that rationalization, anything can easily become on campus speech if you wrote it down and someone else brought it onto the campus. Might as well stop pretending that Constitution applies to students. It's particularly interesting that the speech she was punished for was criticism of the administrators. Granted, it was a little strongly worded, but isn't this the exact type of thing the first amendment is supposed to protect?