Fourteen federal appellate judges spent more than two hours talking about high school pranks on Thursday as the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sat en banc to consider a pair of cutting-edge First Amendment cases brought by students who were suspended for ridiculing their principals on MySpace.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania is representing both students and argues that school officials have no power to impose discipline for such off-campus speech.

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