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标题：Silencing the Rebel Yell: Exceptions to the First Amendment After Defoe ex rel. Defoe v. Spiva, 625 F.3d 324 (6th Cir. 2010)
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作者：Alexandra Brown
期刊名称：Southern Illinois University Law Journal
印刷版ISSN：0145-3432
出版年度：2013
卷号：37
期号：2
页码：465
出版社：Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
摘要：One of the central tenets of the First Amendment is the freedom of speech. However, the Supreme Court has consistently held the First Amendment does not provide the same protections for minors’ speech in public school as it does for adult speech. Recently, the Sixth Circuit further limited the protections provided to student speech in Defoe ex rel. Defoe v. Spiva. This Note examines the decision in Defoe ex rel. Defoe v. Spiva and argues that the decision was incorrect because it deviated from long-standing Supreme Court precedent and erroneously created a new standard that was left undefined. This Note also considers the dangerous repercussions that may flow from the Sixth Circuit’s decision