An eighth-grade student who was suspended for 10 days after she created a fake page on MySpace.com that depicted her principal as a pedophile and a sex addict has lost her civil rights suit now that a federal judge has ruled that the discipline was proper and didn’t violate her free speech rights.
“A school can validly restrict speech that is vulgar and lewd and also it can restrict speech that promotes unlawful behavior,” U.S. District Judge James M. Munley wrote in his 20-page opinion in J.S. v. Blue Mountain School District.
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