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  • School district loses its (T-)shirt, must pay ex-student's legal fees in 'redneck' case

    06/23/2006 2:20:31 PM PDT · by Coleus · 29 replies · 1,295+ views
    Star Ledger ^ | 06.20.06 | MIKE FRASSINELLI
    Disciplining a student for wearing a $5 T-shirt five years ago could end up costing the Warren Hills Regional School District close to $1 million. The Warren County district has been ordered to pay nearly $600,000 in plaintiffs' legal fees incurred during the 5-year-old free speech rights battle over whether a high school student could wear his "redneck" T-shirt. That tally does not include the amount the district has paid its own lawyers. Thomas Sypniewski Jr. was suspended for three days during his senior year in 2001 for wearing a T-shirt that listed blue-collar comedian Jeff Foxworthy's Top 10 reasons...