Legal Opinion

Zamecnik v. Indian Prairie School Dist. No. 204

Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Decided March 1, 2011No. 10-2485, 10-3635PublishedCited by 56 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

These consolidated appeals (functionally one appeal, and we’ll treat them as such) are a sequel to an appeal we decided almost three years ago, Nuxoll v. Indian Prairie School Dist. # 204, 523 F.3d 668 (7th Cir.2008). The plaintiffs, two students at Neuqua Valley High School, a large public high school in Naperville, Illinois, had sued the school district (and school officials, whom we can ignore — we’ll call the defendants, collectively, “the school”) for infringing their right of free speech by forbidding them to make a specific negative statement about homosexuality.…

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