Raven Ziegler from Minneapolis protests the name nickname of the Washington team. (Photo by Hannah Foslien/Getty Images)

A high school newspaper in Bucks County, Pa. plans to resume their ban on the name of their sports teams, the same offensive word used by the Washington football team, after school officials overturned it last month. The Neshaminy High School students claim a little thing called the Constitution protects their decision.

Neshaminy’s sports teams share the same mascot and name as the Washington football team. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports:

A law firm representing student newspaper editors has told school officials that the editors plan to resume their ban on printing the word [actual team name] — and that any attempt to stop them would be unconstitutional.

“The students will proceed in accordance with their published policy and, if disciplined for doing so, will take action to defend their rights,” said the seven-page letter sent Friday by lawyers at Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz.

School principal Rob McGee, who overturned the ban, doesn’t seem too concerned with the threat of a lawsuit:

McGee wrote that “those skilled in interpretations of the law” will work to find a solution, and that if one cannot be reached, “then the courts will define a new standard to fit our particular situation in Neshaminy.”

While the future of their own ban is in question, the Playwickian’s decision inspired the Bucks County Courier Times to stop using the name, “except in stories dealing specifically with the controversy surrounding the name.”