[NYer]

Good news ping!

[kjo]

What in the world is a judge doing messing with this? Are they all crazy?

Soon we’ll have judges telling us that we have to buy health insurance or pay a federal fine.

What’s that you say...?

[a fool in paradise]

Headline is incorrect, judge refused to force the school to stage a prom specifically so a self-professed lesbian could bring a same sex date. The event was already cancelled for EVERYONE.

[ßuddaßudd]

Will she Fly and go to the Prom at Tamalpais High School?
or drive?

[Hodar]

she were not permitted to wear a tuxedo and bring her lesbian partner.

So, by this standard are schools aupposed to let young men come to the Prom wearing sheer dresses with cleavage?

Unfortunately, the Prom has ceased to be a passage into young adulthood, and instead has morphed into a pagent of self-indulgent gratification, and outrageous expence. IMHO, they should be moved from the Educational system, and into the private sector. If some parents or some group wishes to throw a Prom ... fine and good. But I see no reason why my taxes should go to fund a party.

[Constitutions Grandchild]

“...and make a social and political statement on her sexual orientation.”

I wouldn’t have thought anything of a young woman showing up in a tuxedo (actually, some of the “menswear” formal attire is pretty attractive) and coming to the Prom with a girlfriend. There used to be all kinds of girls and boys who went stag to these affairs back in the really good old days [ah, before my time, but my mother told me about it]. Girls would dance with girls when the boys were too shy or away in the war. At all girl schools, there was a lot of that going on so that even the homliest young woman would have that “dress up” event.

Where I draw the line is what in the world does making a “social and political statement on her sexual orientation have to do with a high school prom????” That’s what just butters my biscuits. It shows the true colors of this “poor girl who just wants to have that cherished memory of her high school prom being denied one of her major rights of passage”. Hogwash!

[circlecity]

So, since the kid can't show damages, all this case is about is legal fees for the ACLU. In fact, this ruling is the judge basically denying the complaint (the injunctive relief WAS the case) but keeping a meanings claim in on dubious grounds so the the ALCU can rack up hours. At the hearing on the merits the Judge will throw the ACLU a bone in the form of a meaningless (and probably meritless) win to the plaintiff so he can award fees to the ACLU. $750 an hour fees. They'll make a couple hundred grand easy. And the school won't appeal.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

She's been invited to a prom in another city. How nice for her! She ruins the prom for hundreds of other students (the prom was cancelled just because of her), and now she's invited to another prom. She gets to go to a prom, while hundreds of her classmates don't.

[Chode]

and the RATS, take another one in the..............................HA ha!!!

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Suspect this kid is no “lesbian” at all - just a useful idiot for the ACLU.

[Lancey Howard]

Davidson will still hold a trial, but has so far not set a date.

???

A trial about what?