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Leonard Law states "No shall make or enforce a rule subjecting a student to disciplinary sanctions solely on the basis of conduct that is speech or other communication that, when engaged in outside the campus or facility of a , is protected from governmental restriction by the First Amendment to the
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The effect of the law is that - at a public or private school - the school's ability to restrict a student's on-campus speech is constrained to the same extent as if a government entity tried to limit the speech off-campus.
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to colleges and universities. California is the only state to grant First Amendment protections to students at private postsecondary institutions. Attempts at a
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The law applies to public and private colleges, and public and private high schools, but does not apply to elementary or middle schools.
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In 2006, California amended the law to include public institutions of higher education, which in California consist of the
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Schools are permitted to enforce reasonable restrictions on the time, place, and manner of the student's speech.
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wrote the law to require private high schools, colleges, and universities to protect their students' rights to
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United States Constitution or Section 2 of Article I of the California Constitution."
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Cal. Educ. Code Sec. 48950, Cal. Educ. Code Sec. 66301, Cal. Educ. Code Sec. 94367
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students filed the first lawsuit under the Leonard Law, claiming that Stanford's
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Leonard Law and for Leonard Laws in other states have not succeeded.
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that struck down the speech code as a violation of the Leonard Law.
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against their institutions; students may also recover any
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authored the amendment in preemptive response to the
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passed in 1992 and amended in 2006 that applies the
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