Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit April 2, 2007, 06-1999, 06-2573 (Michael D. Brandt, on Behalf of Himself and All Others Similarly Situated v. Board of Education of City of Chicago)

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

This class action suit was brought on behalf of 24 eighth graders at a Chicago public school called the Beaubien Elementary School. They were disciplined for conducting a protest that they claim is privileged by the free-speech clause of the First Amendment, held applicable to state action by the Fourteenth Amendment.