Legal Opinion
Griswold v. Driscoll
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 12, 2010No. 09-2002PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SOUTER, Associate Justice.
The issue is whether a decision by the Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education of Massachusetts to revise an advisory “curriculum guide” (by deleting his own earlier revision) in response to political pressure violated the First Amendment. We hold that it did not and affirm the judgment of the district court.
The well-pleaded facts in the plaintiffs’ complaint, taken as true, see Barrington Cove Ltd. P’ship v. R.I. Hous. & Mortgage Fin. Corp., 246 F.3d 1, 4-5 (1st Cir.2001), together with documents attached and cited, see Stein v. Royal Bank of Canada, 239…
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