The U.S. Supreme Court Monday ended former Connecticut high school student Avery Doninger's First Amendment fight when it let stand a prior ruling that school administrators acted reasonably when they disciplined her for using a vulgar term to criticize faculty.

I wrote extensively about this case here and Zeugma engaged me in a lively debate. The result is not as bad as the ruling Sotomayor joined which I analyzed in that blog post. The court basically decided that the school could prevent students involved in "offensive" protests from participating in the student government specifically because participating in the student government requires a respectful relationship with the administration. They imply that other kinds of sanctions may not have been legal. Zeugma made this point in his posts in the thread on MemeStreams.

U.S. Supreme Court declines to rule on student free speech in Connecticut case - Courant.com