Foreword
On January 24, 2002, during aschool-sanctioned viewing of the Olympic Torch Relay, Juneau-Douglas Highsenior Joseph Frederick held up a sign that read “Bong Hits 4 Jesus across thestreet from his school. Five years later, nine U.S. Supreme Court justicesdebated what the sign meant — and whether Frederick’sFirst Amendment rights were violated when the school’s principal made him takeit down. Since 1968, student speech has been governed by Tinker v. Des Moines Independent CommunitySchool District, a landmark case in which the Court ruled that a schoolcannot prohibit students from wearing black armbands as a symbolic protestagainst the Vietnam War. Students,…
