Perspective
Mar. 11, 2014
Ruling on American flag T-shirt ban gives wrong lesson
The high court has held that the "listeners' reaction to speech is not a content-neutral basis for regulation - in other words, the First Amendment does not permit a heckler's veto." By Arthur Willner
In a case that has received national attention, resonating throughout talk radio and the blogosphere, last month the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the administrators of a Northern California high school did not violate the First Amendment rights of three students who they restricted from wearing T-shirts depicting the American flag on campus on the Mexican holiday of Cinco de Mayo in 2010. Dariano v. Morgan Hill Unified School ...
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