BrownDuck wrote:
gbaji wrote:
Duke Lubriderm wrote:
Wow, still no follow up on the school that lost a court case because someone saw someone else wearing a t-shirt that someone found offensive. Gbaji, can you please tell me what school this was? Hell, if you got a minute, supply a link or two about these twin lawsuits that the school lost?
Sorry. I forgot about that. I actually got the details backwards, but for the point I'm making it doesn't matter. The school is Poway High School. Here's a
story about it.
It was a student who wore an anti-gay t-shirt, not the other way around. He successfully sued that his right to free speech was infringed. The kids mentioned at the end who filed suite for "being harassed"
because of the t-shirt? They also won. The effect is that the courts have told the school that it's a violation of the students rights to not allow them to wear such a shirt, but it's also a violation of other students rights to allow them to. Yay legal system!
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In an unrelated incident, two gay students are suing the district for allegedly not protecting them from harassment.
Reading comprehension is out the window when you've just GOT to make your point, right?
Yeah. I misread it, then did a quick search on that specific case and it wasn't about the t-shirt itself. Kinda busy today so I didn't get a chance to post a correction. In any case, I do know that there was a "related" lawsuit specific to the t-shirt incident itself (filed by the GSA itself and specific to the speech disrupting their organized event IIRC). I don't recall if the lawsuit was just settled or what, but the school definitely "lost" in both directions on that one incident.
Oh. And in the interest of full disclosure, I was not aware that the original couple court rulings for the student were finally overturned at a federal court level and is now being appealed to the Supreme Court. So, technically, that case isn't done yet.
To be fair, Poway is also somewhat of an exception. It's in a well to do neighborhood with a large percentage of youngish attorney parents who just love to find something to sue the school so they can practice their trade. It's somewhat of a joke, but it results in real costs for the school district every single year. You would simply not believe the number of ridiculous things that school gets sued over.
Edited, Oct 10th 2011 3:07pm by gbaji