Blaw 3400 (Honors, D02, T, R 2:40)
IRAC Assignment #2
July 27,2017
Morse v. Frederick, 551 U.S. 393 (2007)
Facts:
On January 2 ,2002 students and staffs at Juneau-Douglas High school in Alaska, were permitted to leave class to watch the Olympic Torch Relay pass by through the school. Joseph Frederick, who was late for school joined his friends across the high school. When the relay began he, along with his friends unfurled the banner that said, “BONG HiTS 4 JESUS.” Principle, Deborah Morse, then ran across the street and took it away from them. She than suspended Fredrick for five days for violating school’s anti-drug policy.
Procedural History:
He appealed the suspension to the superintendent, who denied it. He then appealed