The Easton Area School District doesn’t want to demonize "boobies," its lawyer, John Freund, told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Tuesday.

A three-judge panel heard arguments in a case brought by two middle school students, backed by the American Civil Liberties Union, who were suspended for wearing breast-cancer awareness bracelets stamped with the phrase, "I [heart] boobies." Their case was successful in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.