The Student Press Law Center, Feminists for Free Expression, the First Amendment Project, the Freedom to Read Foundation, and the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression
Amici Curiae
Sonja R. West, Counsel of Record The amici in this caseare all organizations dedicated to preserving the free speech of students andjournalists. Sonja R. West is an assistant professor specializing in media andconstitutional law at the University of Georgia. She receivedher law degree from the University of Chicago in 1998. Thefollowing is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for the Respondent as submitted to the U.S. SupremeCourt on February 20, 2007. This caseinvolves significant constitutional issues about the right of public schoolstudents to engage in independent speech free from official censorship orpunishment. In this case, Joseph Frederick peacefully displayed…
