BROUSSARD BY LORD v. School Bd. of City of Norfolk

ORDER AND OPINION

DOUMAR, District Judge.

This action was brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by a public school student of Blair Middle School in Norfolk, Virginia. The matter comes before the Court after a trial on plaintiff’s assertions that school administrators violated her Fourteenth and First Amendment rights. Plaintiff, by her next friend, asserted that her suspension for refusing to change out of a shirt printed with the words “Drugs' Suck!” violated her rights of due process and free speech. Plaintiff seeks declaratory and injunctive relief. The Court finds that plaintiff’s one-day…