The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is hearing a case that pits a student’s First Amendment rights against a school’s power to regulate student behavior off campus.

Lewis S, Mills High School in Burlington, Conn., took exception to something a student posted online and punished her by refusing to allow her to sit on the Student Council.

The student, like millions of other Americans, keeps an online journal—a blog.

On her blog, the student commented about school officials canceling a school event the student had helped coordinate. She used language that was...

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