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· 3/21/2000

West v. Derby Unified School District No. 260

Citations

  • 206 F.3d 1358
  • 2000 Colo. J. C.A.R. 1466
  • 2000 U.S. App. LEXIS 4334
  • 2000 WL 294093

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that the school had demonstrated a concrete threat of substantial- disruption “based upon recent past events.”
  • holding that school district official didn’t violate student’s First Amendment rights because they “had reason to believe that a student’s display of the Confederate flag might cause disruption and interfere with the rights of other students”
  • holding that based on racial tension, school officials had reason to believe that display of the Confederate flag by a student \might cause disruption and interfere with the rights of other students to be secure and let alone\
  • holding the display of the confederate flag may interfere with the rights of others to be secure
  • considering off-campus occurrences when evaluating whether school officials could reasonably predict that the Confederate flag would cause a substantial disruption at school
  • considering how school officials construed the school policy in determining whether the policy was overbroad

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Judges: Baldock, McWilliams, Anderson

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