United States Second Circuit

In proceedings involving an application to preliminarily enjoin a public high school's decision, which disqualified plaintiff's daughter from running for school office after she posted a vulgar and misleading message on an independently operated, publicly-accessible web "blog", judgment denying relief is affirmed where the district court did not abuse its discretion in determining that plaintiff failed to demonstrate a sufficient likelihood of success on her purported First Amendment and equal protection claims.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/29/2008
• Published 05/29/2008

Judges

• LIVINGSTON, Circuit Judge:, Before:  SOTOMAYOR, LIVINGSTON, Circuit Judges, and PRESKA, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jon L. Schoenhorn, Jon L. Schoenhorn & Associates, LLC, Hartford, CT, for Plaintiff-Appellant., Martin Margulies, Quinnipiac University School of Law, Hamden, CT (Lauren Henault, Legal Intern, Quinnipiac University School of Law, Hamden, CT, and Daniel J. Krisch, Horton, Shields & Knox, P.C., Hartford, CT, on the brief), for Amicus Curiae, The Center for First Amendment Rights, Inc., in support of Plaintiff-Appellant., Robert M. O'Neil (J. Joshua Wheeler, on the brief), Charlottesville, VA, for Amicus Curiae, The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, in support of Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas R. Gerarde (Katherine E. Rule, on the brief), Howd & Ludorf, LLC, Hartford, CT, for Defendants-Appellees.