B.L. v. Mahanoy Area School District
| Docket Number | 19-1842 |
| Decision Date | 30 June 2020 |
B.L., as an MAHS freshman, was on the junior varsity cheerleading squad. The next year, she was again placed on JV. An incoming freshman made the varsity team. B.L took a photo of herself and her friend with their middle fingers raised and posted it to her Snapchat story that was visible to about 250 “friends.” The caption stated: “Fuck school fuck softball fuck cheer fuck everything.” A teammate took a screenshot and sent it to a cheerleading coach. Another coach stated that: “Several...
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14 cases
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Doe v. Hopkinton Pub. Sch., CIVIL ACTION NO. 19-11384-WGY
...Snapchat message about a student's cheerleading team, when posted on her own time outside of school, was "off-campus speech." 964 F.3d 170, 189-191 (3rd Cir. 2020).The Students contend the theory of group action violates the First Amendment right to Freedom of Association because the School......
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Commonwealth v. Carrasquillo
...Snapchat allows users to share text, photographs, and video recordings, collectively known as "snaps." See B.L. v. Mahanoy Area Sch. Dist., 964 F.3d 170, 175 n.1 (3d Cir. 2020), aff'd, ––– U.S. ––––, 141 S. Ct. 2038, 210 L.Ed.2d 403 (2021). Snaps may be shared either as "direct snaps" or as......
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Hewlette-Bullard ex rel. J.H-B. v. Pocono Mountain Sch. Dist.
...interfere with the requirements of appropriate discipline in the operation of the school.’ " B.L. ex rel. Levy v. Mahanoy Area Sch. Dist. , 964 F.3d 170, 177 (3d Cir. 2020), cert. granted , ––– U.S. ––––, ––––, ––––, 141 S.Ct. 976, 208 L.Ed.2d 509, , No. 20-255 (U.S. Jan. 8, 2021) (quotin......
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Mahanoy Area Sch. Dist. v. B. L.
...the school to expunge her disciplinary record.On appeal, a panel of the Third Circuit affirmed the District Court's conclusion. See 964 F.3d 170, 194 (2020). In so doing, the majority noted that this Court had previously held in Tinker that a public high school could not constitutionally pr......
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1 firm's commentaries
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CAS Legal Mailbag Question of the Week – 1/14/2021
...that the Court has taken this case for review. Aren’t you? Originally appeared in the CAS Weekly NewsletterB.L. v. Mahanoy Area School District, 964 F.3d 170 (3d Cir. 2020), the court affirmed the decision of the district court and held that the suspension of the student for her vulgar post......
8 books & journal articles
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Honey, I Monetized the Kids: Commercial Sharenting and Protecting the Rights of Consumers and the Internet's Child Stars
...circumstances, laws do little to protect children from parental oversharing.”). 310. See B.L. ex rel. Levy v. Mahanoy Area Sch. Dist., 964 F.3d 170, 180 (3d Cir. 2020) (“[F]aced with new technologies, we must carefully adjust and apply—but not discard—our existing precedent.”). 311. 312. 31......
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Theorizing Student Expression: A Constitutional Account of Student Free Speech Rights. (Speech at Twenty-First Century Schools and Universities)
...Supp. 2d at 474. (43.) 551 U.S. 393, 403 (2007); see also Defabio, 658 F. Supp. 2d at 474-75. (44.) B.L. ex rel. Levy v. Mahanoy Area Sch. Dist., 964 F.3d 170, 187, 188 n.11 (3d Cir. 2020), aff'd, 141 S. Ct. 2038 (2021); see also, e.g., Bell v. Itawamba Cnty. Sch. Bd., 799 F.3d 379, 390-91 ......
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PUT MAHANOY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS: A CLOSER LOOK AT WHEN SCHOOLS CAN REGULATE ONLINE STUDENT SPEECH.
...[https://perma.cc/W7MQ-5VF5]. (7) B.L. v. Mahanoy Area Sch. Dist., 964 F.3d 170, 196 (3d Cir. 2020) ("[O]urs is the first Circuit Court to hold that Tinker categorically does not apply to off-campus (8) Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Cmty. Sch. Dist., 393 U.S. 503, 513 (1969) (quoting Bumside ......
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Proceduralize Student Speech.
...punishment if there is a sufficient "nexus" to the school's "pedagogical interests"), with B. L. ex rel. Levy v. Mahanoy Area Sch. Dist., 964 F.3d 170, 189 (3d Cir. 2020) (holding that schools have no special authority to punish off-campus speech), ajff'd, 141 S. Ct. 2038 (2021). See genera......
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