Legal Opinion
Kowalski v. Berkeley County Schools
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided July 27, 2011No. 10-1098PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Affirmed by published opinion. Judge NIEMEYER wrote the opinion, in which Judge DUNCAN and Judge AGEE joined.
OPINION
NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge:
When Kara Kowalski was a senior at Musselman High School in Berkeley County, West Virginia, school administrators suspended her from school for five days for creating and posting to a MySpace.com webpage called “S.A.S.H.,” which Kowalski claims stood for “Students Against Sluts Herpes” and which was largely dedicated to ridiculing a fellow student. Kowalski commenced this action, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, against the Berkeley County School District and five…
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