United States Tenth Circuit

A school district's guidelines governing a tile painting project (which is found to be "school-sponsored" speech) at Columbine High School, were reasonably related to its legitimate goal of preventing disruptive debate on the school's walls, and did not violate freedom of speech.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/27/2002
• Published 06/27/2002

Judges

• EBEL, Circuit Judge., Before EBEL, HENRY and MURPHY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• W. Stuart Stuller (Alexander Halpern and Susan S. Schermerhorn of Caplan and Earnest LLC, Boulder, CO, with him on the briefs) for Defendant-Appellant., James P. Rouse (Steven H. Aden of The Rutherford Institute, Charlottesville, VA, and William Scott Johns, Louisville, CO, with him on the brief) of Rouse & Associates, P.C., Greenwood Village, CO, for Plaintiffs-Appellees., Stuart J. Lark and Gregory S. Baylor of Center for Law and Religious Freedom, Christian Legal Society, Annandale, VA, for Christian Legal Society, Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, Family Research Council, Focus on the Family, National Association of Evangelicals, and The Navigators, amici curiae in support of Plaintiffs-Appellees., Gregory N. Bryl, David A. Cortman, Stuart J. Roth, and Jay Alan Sekulow of American Center for Law and Justice, Alexandria, VA and Washington, DC, for The American Center for Law and Justice, amicus curiae in support of Plaintiffs-Appellees.