Legal Opinion
Leeb v. DeLong
California Court of Appeal
Decided January 29, 1988No. G002587PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
CROSBY, Acting P. J.
May a school district censor material reasonably believed to contain an actionable defamation from an official campus newspaper? Yes.
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David Leeb was the student editor of the Rancho Alamitos High School Newspaper, La Voz del Vaquero. Rancho is a public high school in the Garden Grove Unified School District, and the newspaper is faculty supervised.
On March 29, 1984, Leeb submitted the proposed April 1 edition to James DeLong, Rancho’s principal, for approval. The newspaper traditionally publishes an April Fool’s Day spoof. This one, for example, reported that rock…
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