ALCU of WA

Sarah, Gwen and I are at the Seattle Univeristy Law CLE on Student rights.   The focus of the CLE is on the 40th anniversary of Tinker v. Des Moines, the landmark Supreme Court ruling for student rights. Speakers include ACLU-WA Cooperating Attorney Christian Halliburton, who is an Associate Professor at Seattle University. Here is a little from the description of the CLE:

Though youths don’t have the full rights of adults, they still enjoy fundamental constitutional guarantees. Learn about the kinds of restrictions on student activities that public schools may enforce and the kinds of restrictions which are not constitutionally permitted, particularly in an increasingly technological society. For instance, may the school discipline a student for criticizing the principal on Facebook off-campus and outside of school hours? Find out how attorneys are working to challenge improper limits on student rights, including the freedoms of speech, assembly and protection from unreasonable search.

I am planing to ask a question about Doninger v. Niehoff. In this case administrators barred a Connecticut high school student from running in a student election after the student criticized administrators online for their handling of a student festival. Sonia Sotomayor was one of the judges on this panel.

The event is co-sponsored by the ACLU-WA Student Club org.