West Lafayette High School v. Casseday [1]

West Lafayette High School student Caitlyn Casseday received a one-day in-school suspension on October 5, 2007, for calling assistant principal Ron Shriner an "ass" on Facebook [2]. The criticism was posted in a Facebook group set up to support another West Lafayette student, who was suspended for his involvement in an altercation in the school computer laboratory that was videotaped and posted on Facebook as well.

According to an article [3] about the suspension on the Student Press Law Center:

Rocky Killion, the West Lafayette School Corporation superintendent, could not speak about Casseday's case specifically. But he said the district makes a "case-by-case determination" on when to punish students for off-campus speech.

"There's not a cookbook approach that says 'If you do this we'll do that,'" he said.

Casseday has indicated that she does not intend to sue over the suspension.