Supreme Court sides with high school cheerleader in dispute over freedom of speech

In an 8-1 ruling, the court sided with Brandi Levy, who was a 14-year-old high school freshman at Mahanoy Area High School in Pennsylvania when she expressed her disappointment over not making the varsity cheerleading team on Snapchat with a string of curse words and a raised middle finger.

The case arose from a post Levy made in May 2017 on Snapchat, according to Reuters.

“ everything,” she wrote near the end of her freshman year, according to The Associated Press.

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