Lower Court Holding
Decision of the Eleventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals
One January day, Coca-Colaand other private sponsors supported a “Winter Olympics Torch Relay in Juneau, Alaska.Students were released from school so that they could watch the Olympic torchpass by. Joseph Frederick, then an 18-year-old senior at Juneau-Douglas High School, never made it to schoolthat morning because he got stuck in the snow in his driveway, but he made itto the sidewalk, across from the school, where the torch would pass by. He andsome friends waited until the television cameras would catch it, then unfurleda banner reading, “Bong Hits 4 Jesus. Deborah Morse, the school principal, crossed the street,grabbed…
