The free speech rights of first graders are at the center of an ongoing legal fight in California. In a March 10 opinion, a panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals threw out a lower court's ...

Can a "schoolyard dispute" warrant federal court intervention? Do first-graders have First Amendment rights? The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit just gave a resounding yes to both questions.

A federal appeals court handed an elementary school student a significant win this week for her free speech rights in the classroom, vacating a lower court’s ruling that had placed her speech rights ...