Posted on 06/24/2021 8:55:59 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
The Supreme Court on Wednesday sided with a Pennsylvania cheerleader punished for a vulgar message shared on Snapchat, with the justices ruling the school violated the student's First Amendment rights when it disciplined her for the off-campus rant.
The high court ruled 8-1 in favor of the cheerleader, Brandi Levy, with Justice Stephen Breyer writing the majority opinion. Justice Clarence Thomas dissented.
While the Supreme Court found Levy's school went too far when it punished her for her social media posts, which are entitled to First Amendment protections, Breyer wrote there is some student speech that takes place off campus that schools can regulate, such as bullying or harassment and threats aimed at teachers or other students.
"[W]e do not believe the special characteristics that give schools additional license to regulate student speech always disappear when a school regulates speech that takes place off campus," he wrote. "The school's regulatory interests remain significant in some off-campus circumstances."
The dispute centered around a message Levy posted to Snapchat on a Saturday in 2017 after learning she didn't make her school's varsity cheerleading team as a rising sophomore. In an act of frustration, Levy, then 14 and a freshman in the Mahanoy Area School District, shared with her 250 followers a self-deleting Snapchat of her and a friend raising their middle fingers, captioned with the uncensored message, "f**k school f**k softball f**k cheer f**k everything."
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All Brandi Levy needed was a good spanking from her father.
They didn't any more important issues to rule on?
Too late for that.
So many females in this generation are just so foul-mouthed and unfeminine. Sad.
Yeah, no. This is nothing more than what I heard in the 80s when similar events befell a fellow kid, only in self-deleting electronic text. The school should not have gotten involved.
In fact, I would go so far as to speculate that this is likely one of the high schools where athletes are worshipped as gods by the admin and everyone else is treated as lesser beings. Idiocy like that is a big big reason why Johnny and Janie can’t read and why our country is in the trouble it’s in right now.
Not been paying attention much for the past three generations much, have you? Lots and lots and lots of foul-mouthed Boomer women, especially elderly Karens.
The question before the court was if the cheerleader was Hot or Not. Justice Thomas looked at the evidence, explaining his dissent.
400 plus peaceful protesters are having their first amendment rights violated right now, some sare still in solitary confinement because of it
spot-on
Justice Thomas' dissent begins on page 34 pf the above opinion.
Why the heck did that have to go to the SCOTUS?
The very first ruling (every subsequent one...) should have been “It’s not a threat to the school or to a student at the school so it is none of the school’s business.”
Actually, this is pretty important. If this had been allowed to stand, *any* off-campus speech that didn’t toe the Democrat educator line could result in students being punished. Any student angry they got screwed by Democrat educators, protesting against their treatment? Punished. Wear a Trump shirt on vacation and post a pic to social media? Punished.
Think about that.
Do you believe if you go to school or work the school and business have the right to punish you for what you say outside school and work?
They don't.
This is a victory for free speech and a blow to cancel culture.
This really wasn’t an off campus issue.
She broke the school’s standards of conduct by cussing the school. Makes no difference where she did it.
Mr. Thomas was correct. She deserved to be kicked off the cheer squad.
In a sane world, she would have been expelled from school.
“Think about that”.
Think about what would have happened to her if she dropped the n-word or cussed out trannies and homos.
Thank-you for understanding the significance of this ruling.
It’s called the first amendment and free speech vs the government. Seems pretty important.
Yup. And not getting enough attention.
Do you believe if you go to school or work the school and business have the right to punish you for what you say outside school and work?
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Oh put down the crack pipe. If I go online and cuss out my employer, I’ll be fired before the day is done.
As it should be.
Males shouldn’t be foul mouthed, either. Apparently, their English teachers are failing them by teaching to the lowest common denominator who can’t seem to understand words containing more than 4 letters.
It also applies to Rudy commenting on the election. He made those comments outside a courtroom on his own time.
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