A group of high school students claimed their First Amendment rights for free speech were violated when their high school princi
pal removed pages from their school newspaper prior to its publication. They sued their school district in a U.S. District Court in Missouri but lost the case. To pursue further action against the school, the students could next
take their case to another federal district court in their circuit, represented by section D in the diagram
appeal the decision in the Supreme Court of Missouri, represented by section C in the diagram
appeal the decision in the U.S. Court of Appeals in Missouri, represented by section E in the diagram
take their case to the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. represented by section A in the diagram
