“Boobies” On the Agenda Today in Philly Federal Court

Once all the fire trucks went away after an apparent anthrax scare, the U.S. Court of Appeals, Eastern District, got down to business.

A couple of Easton Area School District (EASD) middle school students, Kayla Martinez and Brianna Hawk, made national news in 2010 when their school banned breast-cancer-awareness bracelets bearing the phrase “I ♥ Boobies! (Keep A Breast),” sold for $4 each by the Keep A Breast Foundation. Today, their case was before the U.S. Court of Appeals.

The girls, represented by the ACLU, argued their freedom of speech was being violated. (Kind of like the “U Can Suck our D” guys, except with a good cause.) Judges seemed to agree, making the case that the school has no problem using “breast,” which means the same thing. (No word on whether “tit” bracelets would be been acceptable.) The school, in defense, shot back that it was “simply trying to avoid throwing a match into a cauldron of boiling hormones.” Too late, because now you’ve got the mainstream media printing “boobies” all over the place. [City Paper]