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· 8/15/2008

United States v. Luis

Citations

  • 286 F. App'x 771

How courts have described this case

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

  • stating that “under the majority rule, and the rule established by the Ninth Circuit in LaVine, the geographic origin of the speech is not material”
  • finding insufficient disruption when a student posted a video to YouTube in which several students made derogatory, sexual, and profanity-laced statements about a classmate
  • “addressing] the concerns of an upset parent and a student who temporarily refused to go to class,” as well as causing five students to miss an undetermined portion of one school day did not rise to the level of a substantial disruption
  • “[T]he contours of, a student’s First Amendment right to make a potentially defamatory and degrading video about a classmate, which is almost immediately thereafter brought to the School’s attention, are not clearly established.”
  • prior relationship could support prediction of an adverse occurrence

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