A Group of Students at a Public University Have Decided

question 25

Multiple Choice

A group of students at a public university have decided to bring a lawsuit against their university's rules prohibiting certain language that may be deemed offensive and harmful to other students from marginalized groups. These students maintain that the rules clearly violate the First Amendment, since rude and offensive speech is not only protected by the First Amendment, but is also completely subjective. Where will the case likely originate?

• A) a low-level state trial court
• B) a state-level appellate court
• C) the U.S. Supreme Court
• D) a federal court

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Definitions:

Quality of Mind

Mills’s term for the ability to view personal circumstance within a social context.

Semi-periphery

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Peripheral Countries

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Core Countries

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