Legal Opinion
Robert Downs v. Los Angeles Unified School District
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 7, 2000No. 99-56797PublishedCited by 109 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TROTT, Circuit Judge:
The narrow question we must answer is whether the First Amendment compels a public high school to share the podium with a teacher with antagonistic and contrary views when the school speaks to its own constituents on the subject of how students should behave towards each other while in school. The answer to this question clearly is no.
Appellant Robert Downs is a teacher at Doris S. Leichman High School (“Leich-man High”), a school within appellee Los Angeles Unified School District (“LAUSD”). Downs filed suit against LAUSD pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the United…
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