STATE ex rel. OKLAHOMA BAR ASSOCIATION v. LANCE

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• holding that it does not violate the First Amendment for schools to restrict student expression that is reasonably understood as promoting illegal drug use
• holding that student did not have “a First Amendment right” to wield banner that said “BONG HiTS 4 JESUS” at off-campus, school-approved event, and noting that “First Amendment rights are ‘applied in light of the special characteristics of the school environment’ ”
• noting that Fraser was “plainly attuned” to the sexual, non-political “content of Fraser’s speech”
• clarifying that although a school can regulate a student’s use of sexual innuendo in a speech given within the school, if the student “delivered the same speech in a public forum outside the school context, it would have been protected”
• “A ‘qualified immunity’ defense applies in respect to damages actions, but not to injunctive relief.”
• “[N]o one would reasonably believe that [a student’s] banner [displayed at a school sponsored and school sanctioned event] bore the school’s imprimatur.”

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