Legal Opinion
B.L. by and through Levy v. Mahanoy Area School District
District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania
Decided March 21, 2019No. 3:17-CV-01734PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
A. Richard Caputo, United States District Judge *432This case raises the question of whether a public school can lawfully remove a student from an extracurricular activity for her profanity, transmitted off school grounds on a Saturday to fellow students. Plaintiff B.L., a student at Mahanoy Area High School, was dismissed from the cheerleading squad for uttering "fuck school, fuck softball, fuck cheer, fuck everything" off school grounds on a Saturday. I hold that B.L.'s words were constitutionally protected by the First Amendment.
Indeed, I granted B.L.'s motion for a preliminary…
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