Word: bong
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...students have sued schools in astounding numbers, with as many as 94 disciplinary cases reaching appellate courts in one year. And while lots of these suits claim First Amendment violations, the speech involved can feel trivial: inappropriate clothes, online insults or, as in a current Supreme Court case, BONG HITS 4 JESUS written on a banner...
...That the bong-hits case, known officially as Morse v. Frederick, has come before the court is a sign of the times. An unprecedented wave of similar suits has clogged the lower courts in recent years, propelled, say legal experts, by several developments: stricter rules in the aftermath of gang violence and school shootings, a crackdown on alarming Internet comments and a perceived hostility toward religion in public schools...
...March 19 the Supreme Court heard the case of Joseph Frederick, an Alaska high school student who, during the 2002 Olympic torch relay, was suspended for displaying the marijuana-slang phrase BONG HITS 4 JESUS on a banner across the street from his school. The ruling should determine the extent of a school's control over messages displayed in a public setting. "I don't see what it disrupts," Justice David Souter said of the pro-cannabis banner. A ruling is expected by June...
...deciding a case it heard last week concerning a student who was punished for displaying a drug-related message across the street from his school. The case concerns Joseph Frederick, a high school student who was suspended for holding up a 14-foot banner that read “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” on the sidewalk next to his school at the 2002 Olympic torch relay in Juneau, Alaska. His principal argued that the sign encouraged drug use and interfered with the educational mission of the school. Kenneth Starr of Monica Lewinsky fame, who represented the principal, asked...
...Them! and part trigenerational comedy-drama about a weird family--sort of a Little Miss Korean Sunshine. The difference is that instead of a dead old man in the van, the Park family has a little girl (Ko A-sung) missing in the belly of the beast. Then director Bong Joon-ho sets one more plate spinning, with easy-to-spot political metaphors for U.S. influence in Korea and sleight-of-hand in Iraq. If this madly entertaining movie has a fault, it's that it's too ingenious for the genre it ostensibly inhabits...