— In New York, the United States District Court held that school officials did not infringe on the First Amendment free speech rights of a student when they disciplined him for an off-campus posting on Snapchat. The case arose out…
Tag: off-campus speech
Safety Law News for April 5, 2023
– In Texas, United States Court of Appeals, affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit brought by a student who was suspended from the school’s football team for off-campus speech and transferred to an alternative school for the marijuana found in…
Safety Law News for September 30, 2022
— In Michigan, the United States District Court, ruled that an Instagram account created off-campus by a student, that targeted, threatened, and harassed specific teachers and a student, was not protected speech. The court, in upholding the school discipline of…
Safety Law News for September 15, 2022
— In Pennsylvania, the United States District Court refused to dismiss the lawsuit of a student who created at his home a computer-generated, tournament-style bracket that reflected voting by himself and a few friends regarding 64 girls, mostly classmates, to…
Safety Law News for September 9, 2022
— In Michigan, the United States District Court upheld the school discipline of a ten (10) day suspension to a student for posting to a fake Instagram account that he created off-campus impersonating a teacher, sharing the username and password…
Safety Law News for July 18, 2022
— In Pennsylvania, the United States Court of Appeals reversed the suspension and expulsion of a student who, while off campus with friends, “took a picture of his friends wearing wigs and hats, including one hat that resembled a foreign…
Safety Law News for April 1, 2022
— In Pennsylvania, the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled on appeal that a school district’s decision to expel a public high school student, based on his act of posting violent song lyrics to social media, outside of school hours and…