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Author:   Matt Deatherage  
Posted: 6/14/02; 11:23:50 AM
Topic: More students suspended for writing
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More students suspended for writing

This time in Palmdale, California. Two stepbrothers produced and distributed flyers complaining that their school's bathrooms are filthy and that the yearbook focuses only on the popular kids. "They also used profanity, compared a campus security guard to a Nazi and referred to the principal as 'a tad queer,'" says the Los Angeles Times. So the principal suspended them from school, despite California's "Leonard Law" that says anything that a student can say off-campus, he can say on-campus.

The principal says the publication might have been libelous or "caused a substantial disruption." If he finds libel, he can sue them. That's what courts are for -- and if he wants to try prior restraint, he can become a judge instead of a principal.

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