Legal Opinion
Yeo v. Town of Lexington
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided December 9, 1997No. 96-1623PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION EN BANC
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
This case, involving speech interests on both sides, arises from the decision of two public high school student publications — the newspaper and yearbook — not to publish an advertisement. The advertisement promoted sexual abstinence and was proffered by a parent, Douglas Yeo, in the aftermath of a decision by the Lexington, Massachusetts School Committee to make condoms available to students as a public health matter. Yeo had campaigned against the condom distribution policy and lost. The two high school student publications declined to publish the…
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