9th Circuit Affirms School’s Discipline Of Students For Racist Instagram Posts

Mealey's (January 3, 2023, 10:47 AM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Concluding that the racist content on a high school student’s Instagram page had a sufficient nexus to the school and created a substantial on-campus disruption, a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel upheld a trial court’s ruling that the school’s discipline of the page’s creator and another participant did not violate the students’ free speech rights under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution....