The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here. The Supreme Court is making good ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear the case of a Massachusetts middle school student who challenged his school's ...

A Massachusetts 7th grader was sent home for wearing the shirt, though the school allows students to challenge the idea it ...

The Supreme Court denied a petition to hear a challenge to an appeals court ruling regarding a student who fought for his ...

On Tuesday, the US Supreme Court ruled to allow an appeals court ruling to stand involving a case of a middle schooler ...

The Supreme Court rejected the appeal of a Massachusetts student who was barred from wearing a T-shirt to school proclaiming ...

After an appeal for a case about free speech was rejected, Justice Samuel Alito harkened back nearly two decades.

On May 27, the Supreme Court announced that it would not review a decision by the Boston-based US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, which held that the ...

Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented from the Supreme Court’s decision Tuesday to reject an appeal in a free ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear an appeal from a Massachusetts middle school student who was forced to remove a ...

The dispute was the latest in a line of cases that began with Tinker v. Des Moines, the Vietnam-era case of a high school in Des Moines, Iowa, that suspended armband-wearing students. In a ...

Supreme Court decisions like Tinker v. Des Moines, Goss v. Lopez, and Wood v. Strickland have increasingly limited the disciplinary authority of schools and teachers. These legal changes ...