Legal Opinion
Carver Middle School Gay-Straight Alliance v. School Board of Lake County, Florida
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided December 6, 2016No. 15-14183PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAM PRYOR, Circuit Judge:
This appeal requires us to decide whether a complaint that a school board violated the Equal Access Act when it denied the application of the Carver Gay-Straight Alliance to form a student club is ripe and not moot and whether the Act applies to a public middle school in Florida. After a teacher at Carver Middle School submitted an application for the approval of the Carver Gay-Straight Alliance, the superintendent denied the application on the ground that the application failed to identify an allowed purpose for the club. Instead of submitting a new application,…
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