 The Center for Individual Rights, National Coalition Against Censorship, and other groups that advocate First Amendment protection filed "amici curiae" in support of Frederick.Students for Sensible Drug Policy also noted that banning drug-related speech would undermine their ability to have chapters in public schools.The American Center for Law and Justice, and Rutherford Institute, and several other Christian right groups also filed briefs on the side of Frederick, reasoning that if schools could ban "offensive" speech they would also be able to prohibit religious speech with which administrators disagree.