Student loses ruling over "Bong Hits 4 Jesus"
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A high school student who was suspended for unfurling a banner saying "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" did not have his rights violated, a divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday in its first major decision on student free-speech rights in nearly 20 years.
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An appeals court Friday vacated the remaining conviction of a teenager accused in a violent, racially charged incident in Jena, Louisiana, his attorney said. Mychal Bell and five others were initially charged with attempted murder and conspiracy to commit attempted murder in connection with the beating of a white student.
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SEATTLE -- A judge has put off a decision on a lawsuit seeking removal of a Ten Commandments monument outside the Everett police headquarters until the Supreme Court rules on two similar cases.
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A federal appeals court in San Francisco upheld an 2002 injunction barring three California marijuana clubs from giving the drug to medical patients with a prescription. The ruling by judges on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit sided with the Justice Department, which first sued the dispensaries in 1998 to stop sales of medical marijuana to patients with a doctorâs approval, as allowed under a California law approved by voters in 1996. The law has been at the heart of a series of legal battles over state and federal drug laws, which categorize marijuana as illegal. The ruling was likely the last legal recourse for the clubs. In 2001, the United States Supreme Court heard the case and ruled against the California cooperatives.
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By Amy Burroughs, The Paducah Sun, Ky.  Feb. 24--MURRAY, Ky. -- A Murray Middle School teacher was suspended with pay Friday after she was accused of inadvertently trying to buy marijuana from a Kentucky State Police trooper.
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A Louisiana appeals court yesterday overturned the aggravated-battery conviction of a black high school student who was found guilty of attacking a white classmate after a racial incident that raised tensions in their small town.
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A divided U.S. Supreme Court on Monday curtailed free-speech rights for students, ruling against a teenager who unfurled a banner saying "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" because the message could be interpreted as promoting drug use.
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A judge upheld a will Friday excluding the brother of late guitar legend Jimi Hendrix from the musician's posthumous releases, royalties and merchandise.
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MISSION, Texas - Police say the jingle of this ice cream truck meant pot-sickles. Police say elementary school students tipped them off to an ice cream truck driver who was apparently selling $5 and $10 bags of marijuana from the truck. Most customers were in the third, fourth, and fifth grades.
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A 16-year-old girl has lost her case against her school after she was banned from wearing a "purity ring" in class.
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A former pupil loses his case in the first big US Supreme Court ruling on students' free speech rights in 20 years.
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The Supreme Court ruled Monday that school officials retain discretion to censor student speech that they believe may encourage illegal drug use.
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A 12-year-old schoolgirl has failed in an attempted legal challenge to her school's ban on a full-face veil.
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A US atheist loses a legal fight to stop prayers being recited at President George W Bush's inauguration.
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Norway's supreme court ruled Thursday that a student whose Napster.no homepage was linked to free Internet music files must compensate the music industry.
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An atheist lost his bid Wednesday to have the Supreme Court bar the saying of a prayer at President Bush's inauguration.
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Police cannot execute a search warrant in a person's home for possession of less than 4 ounces of marijuana, the Alaska Court of Appeals ruled Friday.