Doninger v. Niehoff

Doninger v. Niehoff, 642 F.3d 334 (2d Cir. 2011)

U.S. Court of Appeals decision concluding that the defendants were entitled to qualified immunity on the plaintiff claims that school administrators violated her First Amendment rights by preventing her from running for Senior Class Secretary as a direct consequence of her off-campus internet speech, namely a blog entry posted from her home during non-school hours, and that school administrators were further entitled to qualified immunity for prohibiting her from wearing a homemade printed t-shirt during a subsequent school assembly for class leadership elections.

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