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Student Pro-LIfe T-Shirt Wearer Wins Suit!
Creative Minority Report ^ | 8/13/10 | Patrick A

Posted on 08/13/2010 9:58:16 AM PDT by marcbold

Score this as one for the good guys and a victory for free speech!

In the immortal words of Edna Mode: Go! Confront the problem. Fight! Win!

FRESNO, Calif. — In a victory for pro-life speech in public school, a federal court entered a judgment Thursday against a California elementary school and three school officials for violating the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights of a 6th grade student who wore a T-shirt opposing abortion.

Los Angeles attorney William J. Becker, Jr., of The Becker Law Firm, assisted by the Thomas More Law Center, filed suit after school officials barred Tiffany Amador from wearing her pro-life T-shirt at McSwain Union Elementary School, a kindergarten through 8th grade school located in Merced, north of Fresno.

“This judgment represents...

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TOPICS: Politics; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: abortion; lawsuit; prolife; speech; tmlc

1 posted on 08/13/2010 9:58:19 AM PDT by marcbold
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To: marcbold
"The Becker Law Firm, assisted by the Thomas More Law Center"

You mean the ACLU didn't take up this cause Pro bono publico ?

I am shocked!!!!!

2 posted on 08/13/2010 10:06:07 AM PDT by wmileo
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To: marcbold

Won? And how much money did it cost to win?
And how many more innocent normal people have been intimidated into silence by this sort of thing?

There is no longer any “free speech” in the USA.


3 posted on 08/13/2010 10:15:53 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (Annoying liberals is my goal. I will not be silenced.)
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To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged

Liberal lawyers outnumber conservative lawyers probably 10-1....victories over the scumbags will be few and far between....and with recent decisions going mostly towards “progressives”....they smell blood in the air, and will not be inhibited at all, certainly not by the mainstream media, not to mention a dumbed down society.


4 posted on 08/13/2010 10:23:36 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo
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To: RckyRaCoCo

We have too many publicly funded law schools.

We can save money by shutting them down since we have more seats than students.

There are too many cushy professor jobs for leftists.


5 posted on 08/13/2010 10:59:01 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: marcbold

Next on the hit list: A RICO suit against the NEA, the world’s greatest organized pedophilia mob, next to the UN.


6 posted on 08/13/2010 12:10:10 PM PDT by DPMD (~)
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To: DPMD

BUMP


7 posted on 08/13/2010 1:45:57 PM PDT by B4Ranch (America was founded by MARKSMEN, not Marxists.)
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Exclusive: Free Speech Victory for Pro-Life Student - Video - FoxNews.com
8 posted on 01/10/2011 7:26:58 PM PST by Coleus (The Immaculate Conception: O Mary, conceived without sin, Pray for us, who have recourse to Thee)
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