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Washington:<\/strong> The US Supreme Court has ruled that a Pennsylvania public school wrongly suspended a student from cheerleading over a vulgar social media post she made after she didn\u2019t qualify for the varsity team.<\/p>\n

The court voted 8-1 in favor of Brandi Levy, who was a 14-year-old high school freshman when she expressed her disappointment over not making the varsity cheerleading squad with a string of curse words and a raised middle finger on Snapchat.<\/p>\n

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Brandi Levy\u2019s school suspended her from the cheerleading team over her profanity-laced Snapchat post. <\/span>Credit:<\/span>American Civil Liberties Union <\/cite><\/p>\n

Levy, of Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, was not in school when she made her post, but she was suspended from cheerleading activities for a year anyway. In an opinion by Justice Stephen Breyer, the high court ruled that the suspension violated Levy\u2019s First Amendment freedom of speech rights.<\/p>\n

But the justices did not foreclose schools from disciplining students for what they say off campus. An earlier federal appeals court ruling in this case would have barred public schools from punishing off-campus speech.<\/p>\n

Despite ruling in Levy\u2019s favour, Breyer wrote that \u201cwe do not believe the special characteristics that give schools additional license to regulate student speech always disappear when a school regulates speech that takes place off campus. The school\u2019s regulatory interests remain significant in some off-campus circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n

The case drew extra interest at a time of remote learning because of the coronavirus pandemic and a rising awareness of the harmful effects of online bullying.<\/p>\n

The case arose from Levy\u2019s posts, one of which pictured her and a friend with raised middle fingers and included repeated use of a vulgarity to complain that she had been left off the varsity cheerleading squad.<\/p>\n

\u201cF— school f— softball f— cheer f— everything,\u201d she wrote near the end of her freshman year, from a local convenience store and on a Saturday. Now 18, Levy recently finished her first year of college.<\/p>\n

Levy\u2019s parents filed a federal lawsuit after the cheerleading coach suspended her from the junior varsity team for a year. Lower courts ruled in Levy\u2019s favour, and she was reinstated.<\/p>\n

The school district appealed to the Supreme Court after the broad appellate ruling that said off-campus student speech was beyond schools\u2019 authority to punish.<\/p>\n

The dispute is the latest in a line of a cases that began with Tinker v. Des Moines, the Vietnam-era case of a high school in Des Moines, Iowa, that suspended students who wore armbands to protest the war. In a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court sided with the students, declaring they don\u2019t \u201cshed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Mary and John Tinker, siblings who went to the US Supreme Court in 1969 for the right to wear black armbands to protest against the Vietnam War.\u00a0<\/span>Credit:<\/span>Internet <\/cite><\/p>\n

The court also held then that schools retained the authority to restrict speech that would disrupt the school environment.<\/p>\n

Breyer wrote that Levy\u2019s case seemed less serious than its Vietnam-era predecessor.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt might be tempting to dismiss B. L.\u2019s words as unworthy of the robust First Amendment protections discussed herein. But sometimes it is necessary to protect the superfluous in order to preserve the necessary,\u201d he wrote, using Levy\u2019s initials because that was how she was identified in the original lawsuit. Levy has granted numerous interviews allowing her name to be used.<\/p>\n

Justice Samuel Alito wrote in a concurring opinion that school officials in Mahanoy got \u201ccarried away\u201d in seeking to discipline Levy. \u201cIf today\u2019s decision teaches any lesson, it must be that the regulation of many types of off-premises student speech raises serious First Amendment concerns, and school officials should proceed cautiously before venturing into this territory,\u201d Alito wrote.<\/p>\n

In dissent, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that he would have upheld Levy\u2019s suspension.<\/p>\n

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