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
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- 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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