Posted on 09/18/2014 7:55:38 AM PDT by mandaladon
It’s official: the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has issued an order declining a request for an en banc hearing in a case involving four students in at a California high school who were sent home for wearing American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo.
The full slate of Ninth Circuit judges has thus agreed with a lower district court and with a trio of appellate judges that officials at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, Calif. could censor students who wanted to wear flag-emblazoned shirts.
The federal appeals court issued its denial of an en banc hearing on Sept. 17 — Constitution Day.
“[N]o further petitions shall be permitted,” the court ordered.
The trouble dates back to Cinco de Mayo (May 5) in 2010, when officials at Live Oak High — a school with a predominant Mexican-American student body — forced the students to remove their American flag-festooned shirts. Administrators called the shirts “incendiary” and worried that fighting would break out between white and Latino students if Latino students noticed the shirts. So, assistant principal Miguel Rodriguez told the students to turn their shirts inside out or leave school.
Students of Mexican heritage told local media that the students wore wore American flag T-shirts should apologize. They said ethnically Mexican students wouldn’t wear a Mexican flag on the Fourth of July (not a school day, but never mind).
The high school, located 20 miles south of San Jose, has experienced numerous gang problems. Nevertheless, the school seems to have organized impressive Cinco de Mayo celebrations in recent years.
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Happy Constitution Day! Ninth Circuit Affirms That It’s Illegal To Wear American Flag Shirts On Cinco De Mayo
Wear them anyways and take it to the Supremes.
Free Speech!
(Wasn’t that what the whole hippie/dippie/yippy movement was about that spawned today’s cretins?
Students of Mexican heritage told local media that the students wore wore American flag T-shirts should apologize.
IMO they should “appologize” by pulling the triggers on some M-60s and clearing the field of the illegals or illegal supporting thugs.
Classic heckler’s veto.
I’d like to see the authorities enforce this.
I know EXACTLY what I am wearing next sick o de mayo.
Damn straight.
Can they wear a French flag on Cincodemayo?
Will all Uniform wearers have to remove the Flag ?
I would wear them...get sent home and have the day off...
perfect
The Liberal 9th Circuit staying true to form.
“assistant principal Miguel Rodriguez”
stopped reading right there.
Wear the American Flag shirt anyway - they don’t have the people to enforce their decision....
Cheer up Ninth Circuit, you’re about to be over-rulled again.
It seems as if the inJustices on this court seem to think they must be over-ruled a lot, or they aren’t doing their job.
Strange thing to me is that the inJustices on the 9th are appointed by the same people who appointed the inJustices in all the other circuit courts.
Used to wake up in the morning ... it made life so wonderful ... What problem? Pictures of the little league.
Need T-shirts with the American flag on the outside, and the Gasden flag on the inside.
If I were a parent of a student in one of these schools I would choose that day to visit my child at school. I would be decked out in my USA attire with an American flag flying from my vehicle.
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