Mark Wynar v. Douglas County School District

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• holding that school’s discipline of student for sending threatening instant messages from home about planning a school shooting was proper under Tinker
• holding that the school could regulate speech that threatened to commit a school shooting and “targeted specific students by name”
• holding that, under Nevada law, plaintiff had a property interest in his public education and was, therefore, entitled to due process before he could be suspended.
• holding that, “under Nevada law, [the Plaintiff] had a property interest in his public education and was therefore entitled to due process before he could be suspended”
• holding that, regardless of the location of the speech, “when faced with an identifiable threat of school violence [(threats communicated online via MySpace messages)], schools may take disciplinary action in response to off-campus speech that meets the requirements of Tinker”
• holding that, regardless of the location of the speech, “when faced with an identifiable threat of school violence [ (threats communicated online via MySpace messages) ], schools may take disciplinary action in response to off-campus speech that meets the requirements of Tinker ”

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