Appeals Court Revives Lawsuit Over 1st Grader’s Black Lives Matter Drawing

Appeals Court Revives Lawsuit Over 1st Grader’s Black Lives Matter Drawing

A court revived a 1st grader 's claim she was punished for giving a drawing to a Black classmate.

First Amendment and 1st Grade: 9th Circuit rules on student speech * WorldNetDaily * by Fred Lucas, The Daily Signal

‘Black Lives Matter’ painted on street leading to the White House The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of an elementary school student’s First Amendment rights after she was punished for adding the words “any life” to a picture of “Black Lives Matter.” The student, with the initials B.B., said she added the message while in first grade in 2021, inspired by a lesson on Martin Luther King Jr. She shared the drawing with a friend. The sc…

First Amendment and First Grade: 9th Circuit Rules on Student Speech

A federal court decides the case of a California first grader punished at school for sharing a drawing asserting that "any life" matters.

Court: 1st Graders have speech rights; Mom can sue Capistrano school

PASADENA — A federal appeals court will allow an Orange County mother to resume suing her young daughter's school district for allegedly trampling the child's constitutional rights by punishing the white child for writing "Any Life" on a "Black Lives…

9th Circuit upholds first grader's free speech rights in 'black lives matter' case

A federal appeals court handed an elementary school student a significant win this week for her free speech rights in the classroom, vacating a lower court’s ruling that had placed her speech rights at the whim of teachers and administrators. A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit found that the lower court did not properly apply the standard set in the 1969 Supreme Court ruling Tinker v. Des Moines, which found tha…

First Amendment May Protect First-Grader's Giving Black Classmate "Black Lives Mater Any Life" Drawing

From today's decision in B.B. v. Capistrano Unified School Dist., decided by Judges Consuelo M. Callahan, Roopali H. Desai, and Ana de Alba: In March 2021, B.B., a first-grade student, drew a picture which included the words "Black Lives Mater [sic] any life" and gave it to M.C., an African American classmate. When M.C.'s mother raised concerns, the school principal, Jesus Becerra, spoke to B.B. and allegedly told her that the picture was inappr…