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Posted on 11/06/2026 9:28:43 AM PST by Red Badger
Kyle Fellers missed half his daughter’s senior-year soccer games after a dispute over a pink wristband. Two years later, Bow School District has a federal judgment declaring that it violated the parents’ First Amendment rights, plus a settlement providing $275,000 in legal fees and costs.
The wristbands carried two letters: XX. Apparently, defending girls’ sports required parents to defend their right to wear something smaller than the average school identification badge.
From KSAT:
In a dismissal order Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge Steven McAuliffe said the men have a First Amendment right to silently wear the wristbands and that school officials violated it. Under a settlement agreement, the district’s risk pool will pay $225,000 to the Institute for Free Speech, which represented the men in court, and $50,000 to the men's attorney. The plaintiffs will each get $17.91, an amount that symbolizes the year states ratified the First Amendment.
Fellers said he missed half of his daughter’s soccer games during her senior year because he stood up for what he believes in. The wristbands were marked “XX” to represent female chromosomes.
“It took more than two years, but the court has recognized that what happened to us was wrong,” he said in a statement.
On November 5, U.S. District Judge Steven McAuliffe entered a stipulated declaratory judgment recognizing the plaintiffs’ right to wear the wristbands silently along the sidelines, in spectator areas, and in parking lots at Bow District sporting events. The order expressly declares that the district violated their rights at the Sept. 17, 2024, girls’ varsity soccer game.
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Awesome. Dads should have received $$ for pain and memories lost but the ruling is good.
The Bow School District officials who caused this should be fired and any teaching certificates they have should be revoked.
The post and in checking the linked source article fail to identify state of city.
Anyone know?
Meh. If the “administrators, superintendent, and principal are not directly punished, this means nothing. Hope they enjoy their $1791.00. Is the tranny still on the team?
The awarded damages for these types of cases need to be much larger.
As long as it’s trivial, the government entities have absolutely no reason to stop their tyranny.
I’d say at least 10% of the entities budget should suffice.
Where is Bow?
“..If the “administrators, superintendent, and principal are not directly punished, this means nothing. ..”
EXACTLY.
It’s one thing to after the school district for actions of thesse communist arseholes...quite another to go after them personally. Make THEM personally liable and responsible for their BS decisions...
They should have whatever certificates they hold, revoked and a restraining order keeping them away from school districts and kids..
Bow High School is in Bow, New Hampshire.
In a few months, when the rats begin their retribution reign of terror, I expect cases like this going in the opposite direction.
Those school administrators were really nasty!
The court is in New Hampshire and McAuliffe was nominated by George H.W. Bush. The judge’s wife was Christa McAuliffe who died on the space shuttle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_J._McAuliffe
Bow School District
Bow, New Hampshire
There has to be a way this kind of thing can be speed up. He had to miss half the season to stand for his rights and those responsible pay nothing.
>> Bow High School is in Bow, New Hampshire.
Is it Bow as in “Bow And Arrow”?
Or Bow as in “Bow down to BLM and the Alphabet Pervert Lobby”?
"U.S. District Judge Steven McAuliffe"
Is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire.
You notice the lawyer(s) got big bucks, the people who suffered actual damages, got nothing.
I may not be a lawyer, and I don't play one on Television. But I am one hell of a Jail-House Lawyer.
Federal Depravations of Civil Rights, U.S.C. Subsection 1983, has no Statute of Limitation(s) {just like murder has no Statute of Limitation(s),}
Statement of Cause of Action for Damages (just copy & paste) "Without due process of law under the 4th, 5th, & 14th Amendments, Plaintiff was damaged, by his / her denial of 1st amendment equal protections."
The minimum request for Federal (civil rights) claim of / for damages is $50,000.00 (fifty-thousand dollars) per violation. That's four U.S.C. {1983} Civil Rights violations, by my count, hence $200,000.00 (two-hundred-thousand dollars.)
ATTENTION KEYBOARD WARRIORS, you know your one, if you started to think "But the court granted $17.91" for not being allowed to wear said item." FYI: in that respect, your correct, but nowhere in the article is any mention of "Federal (Section 1983, Civil Rights) Denial / Depravations," award of money mentioned.
In my humble OPINION this lawyer must be a partner in the Law Firm: Dewey, Do’em, Screw’em, Cheatham, Righteously, & Howe. 1st chair Seymour Butts. Billing Department Attention: Ben Dover. Complaint Dept:Crying Harder. 2nd chair: Irving Pinkus Abroughawits, hasn’t won a case in twenty five years’, but he’ll win this one. Just Smile & Dial 1-800-U-Jack-A$$
And now they’ll look for anotehr way to ban tehm. This is what leftists do.
New Hampshire
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