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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5172/A.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='US Supreme Court Sides with Student over School in Free Speech Decision' data-article-id='5715'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='14938'>The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a high school violated a student’s free speech rights by punishing her for a social media post.</span> <span data-start-time='14938' data-end-time='32771'>By a vote of 8-1, the nation’s highest court ruled in favor of Brandi Levy over Mahanoy Area School District in the state of Pennsylvania.</span> <span data-start-time='32771' data-end-time='45479'>In 2017, Levy was upset that she did not make the top cheerleading team at the area’s high school. </span> <span data-start-time='45479' data-end-time='50167'>She was selected for the second-best team.</span> <span data-start-time='50167' data-end-time='70667'>Levy, who was 14 at the time, then posted on Snapchat an image of herself raising a middle finger, an offensive sign, and using bad language to criticize the school and the team. </span> <span data-start-time='70667' data-end-time='80500'>The action took place outside of school hours and away from the school grounds.</span> <span data-start-time='80500' data-end-time='86688'>The Snapchat messages could only be seen for a short time. </span> <span data-start-time='86688' data-end-time='93104'>But the post was captured and shared with parents and school officials. </span> <span data-start-time='93104' data-end-time='101958'>Some students approached school officials about the post and were “visibly upset.”</span> <span data-start-time='101958' data-end-time='108146'>School officials punished Levy by banning her from cheerleading for one year. </span> <span data-start-time='108146' data-end-time='118083'>They decided that her offensive action was related to cheerleading, a school activity, and disruptive.</span> <span data-start-time='118083' data-end-time='123750'>Levy and her parents took their case against the school to court. </span> <span data-start-time='123750' data-end-time='130354'>A lower court judge ordered the school to let her back onto the team. </span> <span data-start-time='130354' data-end-time='139875'>But the school appealed the decision to a federal court in Pennsylvania and then the Supreme Court.</span> <span data-start-time='139875' data-end-time='149375'>The school argued that it was permitted to punish Levy based on a 1969 Supreme Court ruling.</span> <span data-start-time='149375' data-end-time='158333'>The ruling in Tinker v. Des Moines protected students’ rights to protest the Vietnam War. </span> <span data-start-time='158333' data-end-time='166458'>But the court also said students could be punished for disruptive speech.</span> <span data-start-time='166458' data-end-time='173083'>Justice Stephen Breyer wrote the opinion for the majority. </span> <span data-start-time='173083' data-end-time='184917'>Some might think Levy’s words were not worthy of the First Amendment protection of free speech rights, Breyer noted. </span> <span data-start-time='184917' data-end-time='197000'>“But sometimes it is necessary to protect the superfluous in order to preserve the necessary,” he added.</span> <span data-start-time='197000' data-end-time='207021'>A lower court had ruled that schools have no authority over a student’s speech when it happens away from school grounds. </span> <span data-start-time='207021' data-end-time='212146'>But the Supreme Court’s ruling is more limited.</span> <span data-start-time='212146' data-end-time='221771'>Breyer wrote that the school’s interests “remain significant in some off-campus circumstances.”</span> <span data-start-time='221771' data-end-time='239063'>He added, however, "When it comes to political or religious speech that occurs outside school or a school program or activity, the school will have a heavy burden to justify intervention.”</span> <span data-start-time='239063' data-end-time='246104'>Levy said she was glad the Supreme Court agreed that her school went too far.</span> <span data-start-time='246104' data-end-time='269063'>Now, an 18-year-old college student, she told Reuters, "I never could have imagined that one simple snap would turn into a Supreme Court case, but I'm proud that my family and I advocated for the rights of millions of public school students.”</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5172/A.jpeg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=17647 data-hint-location='184917' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5172/what_does_superfluous_mean.wav'>What does superfluous mean?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='beyond what is needed; 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