The legal dispute implicates a 1969 Supreme Court precedent in a case known as Tinker v ... sought a court order prohibiting school officials from barring his wearing of the T-shirt and declaring ...

The denial came Tuesday on the court’s routine order list, a document that ... it takes four justices to do so. In the T-shirt case, called L.M. v. Middleborough, Thomas and Alito each wrote ...