High Court to Hear Case on School’s Letter To Athletes
The U.S. Supreme Court next week takes up another dispute involving high schools and free speech, but this one is far removed from the case the justices heard last month over a student’s discipline for displaying a “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” banner.
The speech at issue in the new case comes not from a student but from a private high school, and the question is what happens when the school’s communication to incoming student-athletes runs afoul of a state scholastic-sports association’s rules of conduct.
Brentwood Academy, an independent school in suburban Nashville, Tenn., has been embroiled for nearly a decade in a bitter legal battle with the Tennessee Secondary Schools Athletic Association, the governing body for public and private high school...
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