The U.S. Supreme Court (Court) declined to hear two free speech cases brought against school districts within a week. Most recently, on June 15, 2026 the Court rejected a petition in E.D. v. Noblesville School District, which was brought on behalf of an Indiana high school student whose flyers promoting an anti-abortion school club’s meetups were rejected by school administrators because they contained images of students with “Defund Planned Parenthood” and other signage. The district court where the lawsuit was initially filed and the U.S. 7th Court of Appeals both decided in favor of the school district, and the Court’s rejection of the case means those decisions stay in place.
Previously, on June 8, 2026 the Court rejected another free speech case out of the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals. That case, C.S. v. Craig McCrumb, began in 2022 when a then-3rd grade student wore a black baseball cap depicting an AR-15-style rifle and the phrase “COME AND TAKE IT” to school for Wear a Hat Day. In that case, school officials believed wearing weapon imagery is never appropriate in school and they made the student remove it and the appeals court later ruled in favor of the school district.
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