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In the internet age, judges began applying the Tinker standard to off-campus speech that causes disruption at school. After the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected that premise in the Mahanoy case, the Supreme Court agreed to review the decision. A broad ruling could set an entirely new standard for schools’ ability to wade into extracurricular speech.
Mahanoy Area High School in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, kicked student B.L. off the junior varsity cheerleading team after she posted a Snapchat selfie holding up a middle finger with a vulgar caption. Other students saw the picture, and one alerted a cheerleading coach.