The U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Vietnam-era decision in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, recognizing a high school student’s right to free speech on school grounds, applies to the elementary-school setting, too, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has ruled.
In a suit brought by a fifth-grader against the Pocono Mountain School District, which wouldn’t allow her to distribute invitations to a church-sponsored Christmas party to her classmates, a three-judge panel on the Third Circuit upheld the decision of a Middle District of Pennsylvania judge who agreed with the girl.
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