Supreme Court Opinion A Serious Buzz Kill

In an anticlimactic end to Morse v. Frederick (or, as it will inevitably be referred to for decades in law school classrooms, The Bong Hits Case), the United States Supreme Court held exactly what you would think they would in a decision released Monday. In his opinion for the majority, Justice Roberts wrote that teachers and school administrators can discipline students for any speech that is reasonably interpreted as advocating the use of illegal drugs. Quoth the Washington Post: "The only winner in this matter seems to be Joseph Frederick, who (despite losing his case) achieved what most class clowns only dream of: a prank of historic proportions. He even got members of the U.S. Supreme Court talking in chambers about bong hits."