One day, a Starkville High School student named Eli wears to…
One day, a Starkville High School student named Eli wears to school a homemade T-shirt that reads, “President Keenum Is an Idiot” It also has a digitally manipulated picture of President Keenum wearing a dunce cap on his head. A few kids react to the T-shirt with laughter, while others tell Eli that they believe “Keenum rocks, dude! I am for sure going to State” School administrators object to the T-shirt, finding it offensive and degrading to President Keenum and they order Eli either to wear another T-shirt or to wear the anti-Keenum T-shirt turned inside out so that the message and image are not visible. Eli refuses to do so, and he is suspended from attending school for ten days. Eli then, turns around and sues the school for violating his First Amendment right of free speech. As a judge, you must consider whether or not Eli’s First Amendment right of free speech has been violated. What is the rule or test in the case for determining when school administrators may censor speech without violating a student’s First Amendment right to free speech. Applying the rule or test that you identified in 1, will Eli or the School win? Please explain your answer.
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Lee and Jack are both writers for their campus newspapers, Lee for The Daily Mississippian (Ole Miss) and Jack for The Reflector (MSU). The two writers despise one another. Prior to the start of baseball season, the two writers get into a Twitter feud, which results in Jack posting “Lee is loser and moron who wouldn’t recognize a bad pitch even it hit him in his beer-showered face.” One month later, Lee brings a suit for defamation in Oktibbeha County. a) What test(s) should the judge apply/look to, to determine if the statement is fact or opinion? b) Analyze the statement using the test(s) and reach a conclusion. Is it opinion or not?
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