University of Tennessee officials must face free speech claims for allegedly disciplining a student over content on her Twitter and Instagram accounts, the Sixth Circuit ruled Tuesday.
A graduate of UT’s Health Science Center College of Pharmacy sufficiently alleged that the school lacked a “legitimate pedagogical concern” justifying its regulation of her social media content while she was enrolled, Judge
Kimberly Diei was expelled from the school in 2020 over posts administrators said were “vulgar,” according to her 2021 complaint against university and college officials. The posts included a tweet suggesting lyrics for a remix …
