In an 8-1 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled June 23 that a public high school violated a student's First Amendment right to free speech when it suspended the student for posting an angry post on social media after school and off campus.
But the court expressed support for schools needing to have some control over off-campus speech in order to prevent "serious or severe bullying or harassment targeting particular individuals...." LGBTQ groups took opposite sides in the case, Mahanoy v.
Levy, saying it could have important implications for LGBTQ students, even though the case had no LGBTQ-specific facts. The majority opinion upheld the lower courts' decisions, saying the school violated student Brandi Levy's First Amendment right to