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Morse v. Frederick, 551 U.S. 393 (2007), is a United States Supreme Court case where the Court held, 5–4, that the First Amendment does not prevent educators from prohibiting or punishing student speech that is reasonably viewed as promoting illegal drug use.
Morse v. Frederick blends Fraser and Hazelwood, applying them to a school-sanctioned event or activity. [2] While students were along a public street in front of school watching the Olympic Torch Relay pass through, Frederick unfurled a banner bearing the phrase: "BONG HiTS 4 JESUS". The banner was in plain view of other students.
Morse v. Frederick, 2007 – A Supreme Court decision in the case of 18-year-old Joseph Frederick, punished for displaying a banner reading "BONG HiTS 4 JESUS" across the street from a school during the 2002 Olympic Torch Relay, concluding that speech promoting illegal drug use during school-sanctioned events is unprotected. [11]
In the case Morse v. Frederick, the defendant claimed the slogan "BONG HiTS 4 JESUS" intended to provoke amusement or disgust but not advocate anything, but the Supreme Court ruled it could be punished under the school speech doctrine because a reasonable person could interpret it as advocating illegal drug use (which was against school policy).
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Kleinfeld was the author of the unanimous panel decision of Morse v. Frederick , holding that a student who put up a banner supposedly supporting drug legalization was exercising his freedom of speech protected by the First Amendment , and the school principal acted unconstitutionally in suspending him.
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