Steven Karp, by His Guardian Ad Litem Marvin Karp v. Elliott Becken

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “Tinker does not demand a certainty that disruption will occur, but rather the existence of facts which might reasonably lead school officials to forecast substantial disruption”
• noting that “Tinker does not demand a certainty that disruption will occur, but rather the existence of facts which might reasonably lead school officials to forecast substantial disruption”
• stating that, “for discipline resulting from the use of pure speech to pass muster under the First Amendment, the school officials have the burden to show justification for their action”
• upholding confiscation of protest banners based on a variety of factors, including threats of violence by other students
• describing the speaker as attempting to lead a “chant” and walk-out while also bringing news media to campus “to publicize [his] demonstration”
• student suspended for attempting to distribute signs protesting school's refusal to renew an English teacher's contract

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).