United States Sixth Circuit

A school ban on clothing containing any "illegal, immoral or racist implications" implicates First Amendment concerns, and the district court should assess whether the school enforced the ban in an uneven manner and whether the ban prevents violence or other disruption.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/07/2000
• Decided 03/08/2001
• Published 03/08/2001

Judges

• Before:  MERRITT, KENNEDY, and GILMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Kirk D. Lyons (briefed), Southern Legal Resource Center, Inc., Black Mountain, NC, Chadwick Kyle Sayre (argued), Portsmouth, OH, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• William H. Fogle (argued and briefed), Mt. Sterling, KY, for Defendant-Appellee.