School District Seeks High Court Review Of Suit Over Online, Off-Campus Speech

Mealey's (December 16, 2020, 2:59 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A lawsuit over a school district’s discipline of a student for her social media post “presents a quintessential issue for review” on the topic of whether the ruling on student speech in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District applies to off-campus, online speech, the school district argues in a Dec. 14 reply brief supporting its petition for certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court (Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L., No. 20-255, U.S. Sup.)....