U.S. District Judge James Donato said in his decision late Wednesday the five students contributed to disruption at Albany High School in the San Francisco Bay Area. The judge rejected arguments that the Albany Unified School District violated the students' free speech rights because the offensive posts were on a private account and made off campus. Donato said the accounts' followers were mainly Albany High School students. The posts pictured students and school employees and created a risk of substantial disruption at the school, the judge said. A phone message left with the school district seeking comment on the ruling was not immediately returned.

Source: Fox News December 01, 2017 12:36 UTC