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...limit the right of students to speak freely since the Court proclaimed in 1969 that they do not "shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech ... at the schoolhouse gate." The court says schools may punish "student speech celebrating drug use" without violating the Constitution, just as they can prohibit "lewd or vulgar" language or speech "sponsored" by the school in, for example, a student newspaper, two First Amendment exceptions that the justices created with rulings in the late 1980s...
...hits message had no meaning, because most of them "do not shed their brains at the schoolhouse gate." And so to allow schools to ban speech that merely alludes to drugs might, he says, squelch "a full and frank discussion of the costs and benefits of the attempt to prohibit the use of marijuana," a topic at the heart of political debate. (Justice Stephen Breyer, often in accord with the case's dissenters, writes separately (and alone) to say the court should just declare that the law gives the principal immunity from getting sued and punt the case on procedural...
This, as they say, is the real world, one in which people would rather discuss their sex lives than salaries. And about a third of private employers actually prohibit employees from sharing pay information. It is also a world that the U.S. Supreme Court seems unfamiliar with. The Justices recently decided 5 to 4 that workers are out of luck if they file a complaint under Title VII--the main federal antidiscrimination law--more than 180 days after their salary is set. That's six measly months to find out what your co-workers are making so that...
...members of the Radiology Department at the Medical School left Harvard because they found the University’s policies to be too restrictive, according to Harvard professor James H. Thrall, the radiologist-in-chief at Mass. General, one of the University’s teaching hospitals. Those policies prohibit faculty from accepting research funding from companies in which they have a financial interest...
...time, Harvard did not expressly prohibit stock ownership in drug companies. Even though a Massachusetts medical board later dismissed all charges against the researcher and his supervisor, the report raised concerns that Harvard had not provided sufficient safeguards to protect against potential conflicts...