Posted on 12/19/2004 11:15:53 PM PST by DixieOklahoma
originally from spofga.org but can be found on georgiaheritagecoalition.org also.
Student files suit against school board
The Southern Legal Resource Center
News Release For additional information contact the SLRC at 828.669.5189/slrc@slrc-csa.org
For immediate release Friday, December 17, 2004 Student files suit against school board In Confederate prom dress case
LEXINGTON, KY – A young woman who was turned away from her high school prom because she was wearing a Confederate flag patterned evening gown will hold a press conference Monday after she files suit against the school board and officials who kept her out. Jacqueline Duty, a 2004 graduate of Russellville High School, is asking actual and punitive damages against the Russell Independent Board of Education, Superintendent Ronnie H. Back and Russell High Principal John Howard. The suit will be filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Lexington.
Following Monday’s filing, a press conference will be held at 1 p.m. on the steps of the U.S. Courthouse, 101 Barr Street. Ms. Duty will make a brief statement, as will her attorney, Earl Ray Neal, and officials of the Southern Legal Resource Center of Black Mountain, North Carolina, whose Chief Trial Counsel will act as co-counsel.
Former SLRC client Timothy Castorina, successful plaintiff in a landmark Sixth U.S. Circuit case that struck down a ban on Confederate-themed clothing in schools, is also expected to attend the press conference. Neal and Lyons/SLRC represented Castorina in the 5 ½ year court struggle
“Ms. Duty was intimidated and humiliated on what should have been one of the happiest nights of her young life by some very overzealous and wrong-headed people,” said SLRC Executive Director Roger McCredie. “She is entitled to vindication and we will work to see that she gets it.”
Earl Ray Neal is an attorney and adjunct Law Professor in Richmond, KY
The Southern Legal Resource Center is a nonprofit law firm that advocates on behalf of persons whose civil and constitutional rights have been violated in connection with expression of their Confederate heritage.
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FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, CONTACT: Roger McCredie (828) 669-5189 exec@slrc-csa.org rebscape@charter.net
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ahem Timothy Castorina, successful plaintiff in a landmark Sixth U.S. Circuit case that struck down a ban on Confederate-themed clothing in schools, is also expected to attend the press conference
That school district is in some deep do-do, and rightfully so.
PITY.
the IDIOTS have made a celebrity of her, FOOLS of themselves AND have also VERY likely attracted a lawsuit, which they will LOSE. (we've NEVER lost one!)
free dixie,sw
your WEAK attempt at humor has FReepers laughing AT you.
free dixie,sw
You're straight out of "Hee Haw" central casting. Grow up, the Civil War is over.
I think you misread my meaning....ohioman has a GEORGIA STATE FLAG on his personal page. Yet he insults the memory of those who fought for the Confederate cause.
That "defeated" confederation (your words) WAS the country of my ancestors. They made an honorable choice to secede, etc.
(s)Now if she showed up with a girl wearing a tuxedo as her prom date, then the principle would have allowed it.(/s)
The only thing the left is doing is converting the confederate flag from a symbol of the south into a symbol of being anti-political correct tyrant.
If they keep this up, it will move from southern expression into something else.
i'm off work now.
i see you found the dictionary with the bigger words!
Please do not speak for anyone other than yourself. I have lived in California for 5 decades and have met very few people "Out here in the west" that this flag means something different.
Also, I am curious as to what does a person "not well versed in history" look like and how can you tell from observation?
sure jim.
i believe you.
btw, it's a secret how i know.
also jim, if you read before the last post i placed the acronym I M H O
see it?
it means in my humble opinion. my opinion. mine.
not yours.
some of you must be stupider than the moron thing that has "free dixie" in his message.
wow.
you must have been following the simple screed from jethro!! lol:)
someone with some sense enough to see this tool as the dolt he is... his and his colleagues type of posts are what end up on du as indicative of fr thinking
i don't think jeth likes me:(
but put on the flame suit as he has several relatives on this thread.
i also see that the cartoon like jethro thing stated he had to go to "work" at 9:59am but was back here blathering a little after 2pm.
lol.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
i wish jeth liked me so i could get a job where he "works".
actually..... not really.
I have no problem with folks being proud of their heritage, and there is much to be admired in the heritage of the American South, but all the "damnyankee" and "Free Dixie" stuff is just plain silly.
You are ignorant of history old son. Go back and study up on it (NOT THE PC VERSION EITHER) then come back and talk to me. The Founders knew secession was an option, they planned for that in Article 9 and 10 of the Bill of Rights. But then you're so PC that you don't even know where our American Ideology comes from do you?! And if you're so intent on condemning the Southern States for their attempt to seceed, then you should also be condemning the Founders for seceeding from Britain! You can't have it both ways homey!
agreed from irish/german. oh yeah....almost forgot..i'm an anti-jethro "bigot". lol.
the comments were on the observations made which combined "ss" and confederate flags and other white pride crap that can be seen for instance at EVERY harley event i have gone to from hollister to phoenix, las vegas, out to milwaukee. THAT is a perversion of the confederate flag to the decent people who venerate their heritage.
to the pricks who think the jethro's out in the calif high desert displaying this mixture of stuff are fans of the southern states' rights issues viv a vis civil war or are altruistic history buffs who are proud of their families lineage (like you will find in the carolinas etc...) go pound sand. stereotype ??? tfb... i've been around.
i respond to their posts in hopes the du lurkers see we don't all "think" like jethro and his ilk.
free tibet!!!!!! lol!
Attempting to carry on any reasonable exchange is futile and I choose to disengage.
I disagree. My ancestors gave their BLOOD for the cause.
Its called English. Learn a language skinhead.
Stupider?!! Stupider?!!
Yours is truly an educated opinion.
Learn a language skinhead.
It polarized the nation even until now. I know it did at the level of the typical American. The ordinary southern soldier farmer had more in common with with the ordinary Union soldier farmer from Indiana that he was fighting than he did with the slave owner planter whose interest he was fighting for. The passions of the time produced unnatural enemies and unnatural alliances.
what a SILLY statement from a person, who is obviously a DUMB-BUNNY.
free dixie,sw
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