Legal Opinion
Fraser v. Bethel School District No. 403
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided March 4, 1985No. Nos. 83-3987, 83-4142PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NORRIS, Circuit Judge:
Bethel School District appeals a judgment for declaratory and injunctive relief, damages, and $12,750 costs and attorney’s fees in this civil rights action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by a student who claimed that the district had abridged his freedom of speech as protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments. We affirm.
I
On April 26, 1983, appellee Matthew N. Fraser, then a seventeen-year-old senior at Bethel High School in Tacoma, Washington, nominated a friend and classmate for school office at a student-run assembly called for that purpose. The following is the…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Roth v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School DistrictSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Miller v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- West Virginia State Board of Education v. BarnetteSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
- Cohen v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
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3Cited by9 opinions
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- Kuhlmeier v. Hazelwood School DistrictCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1986
- Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Assocation v. R. Max Peterson, Chief, U.S. Forest Service, State of California v. John R. Block, Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Defendants- Civ. A. No. 83-2225Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1986
- Bell v. U-32 Board of EducationDistrict Court, D. Vermont · 1986
- Fraser v. Bethel School District No. 403Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1985
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