Posted on 02/27/2014 11:02:41 PM PST by Steelfish
February 27, 2014 Appeals Court Says School Had Right To Ban U.S. Flag T-Shirts
A student wears one of the shirts disallowed on Cinco de Mayo at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, Calif. CBS SAN FRANCISCO
SAN FRANCISCO - Officials at a Northern California high school acted appropriately when they ordered students wearing American flag T-shirts to turn the garments inside out during the Mexican heritage celebration Cinco de Mayo, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the officials' concerns of racial violence outweighed students' freedom of expression rights. Administrators feared the American-flag shirts would enflame the passions of Latino students celebrating the Mexican holiday. Live Oak High School, in the San Jose suburb of Morgan Hill, had a history of problems between white and Latino students on that day.
The unanimous three-judge panel said past problems gave school officials sufficient and justifiable reasons for their actions. The court said schools have wide latitude in curbing certain civil rights to ensure campus safety.
"Our role is not to second-guess the decision to have a Cinco de Mayo celebration or the precautions put in place to avoid violence," Judge M. Margaret McKeown wrote for the panel. The past events "made it reasonable for school officials to proceed as though the threat of a potentially violent disturbance was real," she wrote.
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If the courts have Obama’s mindset, they’ll rule against the constitution as “unconstitutional” (leftist definition: “we don’t like it”) because it’s a
“document of negative rights”.
You can bet that Mexican t-shirts will be banned on July 4th.
Mexifornia is no longer a US state but an appendage of Mexico. What else can you expect?
The 9th Circus.. the Boko Harum of the bench
Thanks for the heads up on the PM’s.
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