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doninger v. niehoff correct answers - called her school board dbags and was barred from student council because they cancelled a concert - Second Circuit rejected a student- plaintiffs' argument "that off campus speech could not be the subject of school discipline." snyder v. blue mountain school district correct answers -8th grader is protected by first amendment after building a fake webpage insulting her principal, his wife, his child and questions his sexuality. - third circuit noted that the student took specific steps to make the profile private and that the principal's investigation of the matter, created any disruption related to the incident wynar v. douglas county school district correct answers -ninth circuit found no First Amendment violation in the school's discipline of a student following "increasingly violent and threatening" internet- transmitted MySpace chat messages. -messages included raping girls dead bodies, hero worship of hitler, and a hit list of students. -The court then engaged in a detailed analysis which expressly adopted Tinker's "disruption or interference" standard, before concluding that the First Amendment does not insulate students from discipline for disruptive off-campus speech, or speech which interferes with the rights of other students wisniewski v. board of education correct answers -a public-school student used an instant messaging program to communicate with fellow students from his home computer. for a three-week period, whenever he sent an instant message, that message was accompanied by a crudely drawn icon depicting one of his teachers being shot in the head, with text below reading "Kill Mr. VanderMolen." -came to the attention of school officials, which led to a criminal investigation and required "special attention" of school officials—among other facets of "disruption" found by the court -where the icon's off campus display posed "a reasonably foreseeable risk that it would come to the attention of school authorities and materially and substantially disrupt the work ad discipline of the school. tinker v. des moines correct answers -Supreme Court held that the armbands represented pure speech that is entirely separate from the actions or conduct of those participating in it. The Court also held that the students did not lose their First Amendment rights to freedom of speech when they stepped onto school property. In order to justify the suppression of speech, the school officials must be able to prove that the conduct in question would "materially and substantially interfere" with the operation of the school. Porter v. Ascension School District correct answers - student drew a crude sketch of his school under siege by a gasoline truck tanker, replete with racial epithets, a missile launcher, and a depiction of a brick being thrown at the school principal. the notes stayed there for 2 years until adam's younger brother needed a notepad to draw a llama.