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Ninth Circuit Affirms That It’s Illegal To Wear American Flag Shirts On Cinco De Mayo
The Daily Caller ^ | 18 Sep 2014 | Eric Owens

Posted on 09/18/2014 7:55:38 AM PDT by mandaladon

It’s official: the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has issued an order declining a request for an en banc hearing in a case involving four students in at a California high school who were sent home for wearing American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo.

The full slate of Ninth Circuit judges has thus agreed with a lower district court and with a trio of appellate judges that officials at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, Calif. could censor students who wanted to wear flag-emblazoned shirts.

The federal appeals court issued its denial of an en banc hearing on Sept. 17 — Constitution Day.

“[N]o further petitions shall be permitted,” the court ordered.

The trouble dates back to Cinco de Mayo (May 5) in 2010, when officials at Live Oak High — a school with a predominant Mexican-American student body — forced the students to remove their American flag-festooned shirts. Administrators called the shirts “incendiary” and worried that fighting would break out between white and Latino students if Latino students noticed the shirts. So, assistant principal Miguel Rodriguez told the students to turn their shirts inside out or leave school.

Students of Mexican heritage told local media that the students wore wore American flag T-shirts should apologize. They said ethnically Mexican students wouldn’t wear a Mexican flag on the Fourth of July (not a school day, but never mind).

The high school, located 20 miles south of San Jose, has experienced numerous gang problems. Nevertheless, the school seems to have organized impressive Cinco de Mayo celebrations in recent years.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: idiocy; illegals; lunacy; mexicans; uduicy
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Students of Mexican heritage told local media that the students wore wore American flag T-shirts should apologize. ........................ More proof we're loosing our country to the invaders.
1 posted on 09/18/2014 7:55:38 AM PDT by mandaladon
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FULL TITLE:

Happy Constitution Day! Ninth Circuit Affirms That It’s Illegal To Wear American Flag Shirts On Cinco De Mayo


2 posted on 09/18/2014 7:56:27 AM PDT by mandaladon (To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful an)
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To: mandaladon

Wear them anyways and take it to the Supremes.


3 posted on 09/18/2014 7:56:34 AM PDT by gwgn02
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To: mandaladon; narses; neverdem; MHGinTN; Nachum; Mr. T

Free Speech!

(Wasn’t that what the whole hippie/dippie/yippy movement was about that spawned today’s cretins?


4 posted on 09/18/2014 7:58:19 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: mandaladon

Students of Mexican heritage told local media that the students wore wore American flag T-shirts should apologize.

IMO they should “appologize” by pulling the triggers on some M-60s and clearing the field of the illegals or illegal supporting thugs.


5 posted on 09/18/2014 7:58:29 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: mandaladon

Classic heckler’s veto.


6 posted on 09/18/2014 7:58:46 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: mandaladon

I’d like to see the authorities enforce this.


7 posted on 09/18/2014 7:58:56 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: mandaladon

I know EXACTLY what I am wearing next sick o de mayo.


8 posted on 09/18/2014 7:59:19 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: gwgn02
Wear them anyways and take it to the Supremes.

Damn straight.

9 posted on 09/18/2014 7:59:20 AM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: mandaladon

Can they wear a French flag on Cincodemayo?


10 posted on 09/18/2014 8:00:10 AM PDT by aomagrat (Gun owners who vote for democrats are too stupid to own guns.)
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To: mandaladon

Will all Uniform wearers have to remove the Flag ?


11 posted on 09/18/2014 8:00:40 AM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: mandaladon

I would wear them...get sent home and have the day off...

perfect


12 posted on 09/18/2014 8:00:43 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: mandaladon

The Liberal 9th Circuit staying true to form.


13 posted on 09/18/2014 8:00:52 AM PDT by Old Retired Army Guy
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“assistant principal Miguel Rodriguez”

stopped reading right there.


14 posted on 09/18/2014 8:00:54 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: mandaladon

Wear the American Flag shirt anyway - they don’t have the people to enforce their decision....


15 posted on 09/18/2014 8:02:47 AM PDT by illiac (If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
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To: mandaladon

Cheer up Ninth Circuit, you’re about to be over-rulled again.

It seems as if the inJustices on this court seem to think they must be over-ruled a lot, or they aren’t doing their job.

Strange thing to me is that the inJustices on the 9th are appointed by the same people who appointed the inJustices in all the other circuit courts.


16 posted on 09/18/2014 8:03:16 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama and the Left are maggots feeding off the flesh of the United States.)
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To: mandaladon

Used to wake up in the morning ... it made life so wonderful ... What problem? Pictures of the little league.


17 posted on 09/18/2014 8:03:58 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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assistant principal Miguel Rodriguez told the students to turn their shirts inside out or leave school.

Need T-shirts with the American flag on the outside, and the Gasden flag on the inside.

18 posted on 09/18/2014 8:04:23 AM PDT by tacticalogic
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To: mandaladon
Ordering mine now.......

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=american%20flag%20shirts

19 posted on 09/18/2014 8:04:37 AM PDT by Envisioning (My desire to be well informed is at odds with my desire to remain sane....)
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To: mandaladon

If I were a parent of a student in one of these schools I would choose that day to visit my child at school. I would be decked out in my USA attire with an American flag flying from my vehicle.


20 posted on 09/18/2014 8:04:53 AM PDT by rfreedom4u (Your feelings don't trump my free speech!)
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