B.A., et al. v. Tri County Area Schools, et al.

Rapid City, Michigan civil rights lawyers represented the Plaintiffs who claimed that their Constitutional Rights were violated by the Defendants.



Two middle schoolers in Michigan wore sweatshirts emblazoned with the phrase "Let's Go Brandon” to school. Based on the commonly understood meaning of the slogan, the school administrators determined that the sweatshirts were inappropriate for the school environment. They asked the students to remove the sweatshirts, and fearing punishment, the students complied. But they still wanted to wear the sweatshirts at school to express their disapproval of then-President Joe Biden's administration and its policies. So, through their mother, the students sued the school district and several school administrators, alleging that the school deprived them of their First Amendment rights.

The district court sided with the school district, concluding that the school could reasonably prohibit the sweatshirts since they were vulgar speech. Because the school reasonably understood the slogan “Let’s Go Brandon” to be vulgar, The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed.