Twins Steven and Sean Wilson were students at Lee's Summit High School in Missouri in 2011. In

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Twins Steven and Sean Wilson were students at Lee's Summit High School in Missouri in 2011. In their time away from school, the two brothers decided to create a blog site, NorthPress, in which they could talk about the goings-on at their high school. However, the two brothers posted comments on their blog site that were highly racist against African Americans. They also made sexually explicit comments about several girls from their high school. The twins' blog did not have a password-protected login, so anyone could have seen the posts or added new posts, which a third student did. Only a few days after the Wilsons had put up their blog, teachers reported difficulty controlling their classes, in addition to observing the adverse effects of the blog posts on one of the girls who was mentioned in them. Subsequently the high school received calls from concerned parents and a visit from a local television station. The Wilsons were at first suspended for 10 days. After further investigation, the boys' suspension was extended to 180 days. The Wilsons sued the school in federal court, claiming that their suspensions violated the boys' First Amendment rights. How should the court have ruled in this case? Under what conditions would the Wilsons' injunction have been justified? S. J. W. v. Lee's Summit R-7 Sch. Dist., 696 F.3d 771 (8th Cir. Mo. 2012).
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