Legal Opinion
Michael D. Brandt, on Behalf of Himself and All Others Similarly Situated v. Board of Education of City of Chicago
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 2, 2007No. 06-1999, 06-2573PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This class action suit was brought on behalf of 24 eighth graders at a Chicago public school called the Beaubien Elementary School. They were disciplined for conducting a protest that they claim is privileged by the free-speech clause of the First Amendment, held applicable to state action by the Fourteenth Amendment. The suit was dismissed on the defendants’ motion for summary judgment, so we state the facts as favorably to the plaintiffs as the record permits.
Every year the eighth graders choose a class T-shirt. Among the designs submitted for the 2003 contest was…
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