Monday, March 19, 2007

Drugs are bad hmmmm-kay?

While we were discussing the DC gun control case in class today, the Supreme Court was considering arguments about whether school administrators erred in 2002 when they suspended a student for waving a 15 foot banner during a televised school event that read "Bong Hits 4 Jesus."

The case, Morse v. Frederick asks whether a school's interest in discouraging drug use trump a student's free speech rights?

Read the transcript of the oral argument here.

Morse's brief can be found here.
Frederick's brief can be found here.