Dean v. Utica Community Schools

OPINION IN SUPPORT OF ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT [17] AND DENYING DEFENDANTS’ MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT [23]

TARNOW, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.

Harry S. Truman, Special Message to the Congress on the Internal Security of the United States, August 8, 1950

In this civil rights action…