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Fourth Circuit· 7/27/2011

Kowalski v. Berkeley County Schools

Citations

  • 652 F.3d 565
  • 2011 U.S. App. LEXIS 15419
  • 2011 WL 3132523

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that a school can address off-campus speech based on “nexus” between speech and school’s “pedagogical interests”
  • holding that a school can address off-campus speech based on “nexus” between speech and school’s “pedagogical interests”
  • holding that the school's discipline of student for creating and posting on a social media page from home that ridiculed another student was proper under Tinker
  • rejecting student's First Amendment challenge to high school's disciplinary action taken against student who, off campus, created website to bully classmate
  • observing \that speech originating outside of the schoolhouse gate but directed at persons in school and received by and acted on by them [may] in fact [constitute] in-school speech\
  • upholding a school’s punishment for a student’s web page falsely claiming that another student had genital herpes and was a “slut” and a “whore”

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Judges: Niemeyer, Duncan, Agee

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