From New York Times, I'm Michael Babaro. This is a Daily.

Today, it's being called the most important free speech case involving students to reach

the Supreme Court in 50 years. Kevin Aruse speaks to our colleague, Adam Lipta, about the

unusual sequence of events behind the case and how the justices may rule in the coming weeks.

It's Tuesday, May 25th.

Adam, there's a case this year at the Supreme Court that seems super interesting to me because it

deals with kind of the intersection of the offline, normal world and the online world.

Yeah, it's a great case. All right, so let's get into it. Where does this story begin?

So a 14 year old student, a public school student named Brandi Levy, was having a very bad day.

On a Saturday, a few years ago, she just learned that she wouldn't make the varsity cheerleading team.

She'd been on JV. She had high hopes for making varsity and she and her friend went to the

Cocoa Hut, which is a teen hangout convenience store in the Mahonoi City, Pennsylvania.

And there, they posted a Snapchat message. They raised their middle fingers and using

a common swear word starting with the letter F. They said, F school, F softball, F cheer,

and F everything.

And they send this to 250 friends in the expectation that this will disappear after 24 hours.

But another student takes a screenshot of it. The screenshot makes its way to one of the

coaches. And young Brandi is suspended from the cheerleading team entirely for a year.

And why do they say they are suspending her?

They say, in essence, that this showed bad sportsmanship that an undermined team come

rottery and that they said it would provoke chaos on the team.

So they seem to think that this would do grave damage to the cheerleading team.

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