United States Fifth Circuit

Student speech that threatens a Columbine-style attack on a school is not protected by the First Amendment, because such speech poses a direct threat to the physical safety of the school population.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/20/2007
• Published 11/21/2007

Judges

• E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:, Before JOLLY, STEWART and PRADO, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Stephen Gordon Peters (argued), El Paso, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellees., Ken Kelly Slavin (argued), Kemp Smith, Henry C. Hosford, Baskind & Hosford, El Paso, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.