Legal bloggers have been having fun over the last week with Ken Starr's latest Supreme Court appeal. Who can blame them, when they've got the phrase "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" to work with? It seems that a high schooler in Juneau, Alaska was suspended in 2002 for putting out a banner with those words at an Olympic torch relay off-campus. In March, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that this was a violation of free speech; as the case waits to be heard or passed over, Gawker observes, "We love: That Kenneth Starr took the case pro bono. We love: That the Supreme Court, whether they decide to hear the case or not, will have to read the words 'Bong Hits 4 Jesus.'"

http://www.gawker.com/news/marijuana/jews-for-bong-hits-4-jesus-197621.php


It only gets better when Decision of the Day connects the case with a Second Circuit case, Guiles v. Marineau,



involving a student's an anti-Bush t-shirt, which showed the President using illegal drugs.

http://appellatedecisions.blogspot.com/2006/08/bong-hits-4-bush.html



The Circuit Court



overruled a former district court's decision, saying that the message was essentially political, not drug-related, and should



therefore be considered as free speech. Bob Loblaw's catch phrase: "Bong Hits 4 Bush."