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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.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: idiocy; illegals; lunacy; mexicans; uduicy
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To: Mouton
I know EXACTLY what I am wearing next sick o de mayo.

YEP.

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41 posted on 09/18/2014 8:23:22 AM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: mandaladon

and nobody knows what it is like to be an American that is hated .... but my dreams are not as empty.


42 posted on 09/18/2014 8:24:21 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: mandaladon

While I completely disagree with this decision, I can see how it might be constitutional - but only if they banned students from wearing clothing with any kind of symbols or statements to school at all times. Otherwise, they are engaging in viewpoint discrimination. So if they want to go to require uniforms or specify that shirts must be plains solid colored, and hats cannot have any emblems or logos, etc., then fine. Otherwise they are favoring one statement (support for Cinco de Mayo) over another (support for the US).


43 posted on 09/18/2014 8:27:14 AM PDT by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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To: mandaladon

“Buck The 9th Circuit” should be a national holiday.


44 posted on 09/18/2014 8:28:12 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: txrefugee

“Then there should be NO flags of any kind allowed, including the Mexican flag. And the school administrators should be fired.”

Then there should be NO flags of any kind allowed, except the Flag of the United States of America. And the school administrators should be fired. It should NEVER, anywhere or anytime be inappropiate for the American Flag to be displayed in America.


45 posted on 09/18/2014 8:28:53 AM PDT by duffee (Dump the Chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party, joe nosef.)
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To: duffee

Technically, the ruling doesn’t say it is illegal to wear a US Flag shirt on Cinco de Mayo - it just says the school district can prohibit it at school on that day. Still a wrong decision in my opinion, but a big difference in the context.


46 posted on 09/18/2014 8:29:07 AM PDT by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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To: aomagrat

“Can they wear a French flag on Cincodemayo?”

No one would notice a white t-shirt.


47 posted on 09/18/2014 8:30:24 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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Lord,
Is it a wasteland?
48 posted on 09/18/2014 8:31:09 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: mandaladon

actually a group of azzhats did wear Mexican attire at our local 4th of July parade

Want to be the person who tells them that is “banned”?


49 posted on 09/18/2014 8:35:35 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: mandaladon

The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals can Ki$$ my Ass!!!


50 posted on 09/18/2014 8:36:04 AM PDT by EXCH54FE (Hurricane 416,Feisty Old Vet !!)
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To: SkyDancer

I think the uprising should include the “red-white-and-blue flu.” This doesn’t need to be a court issue; if 50-75% of the students stayed home with the “red-white-and-blue flu” on May 5, just think of how much money the school would lose.

Of course, you wouldn’t want to actually call it the flu because then the school would still receive it’s funding for the day. On May 1, every parent should call the principal and school board and let them know that if their kids can’t wear an American flag shirt to school on May 5, the student will not attend school that day out of protest.

NOTHING GETS THEIR ATTENTION FASTER THAN LOSS OF FUNDS! I BELIEVE THEY WOULD COME TO THEIR SENSES SOONER RATHER THAN LATER!


51 posted on 09/18/2014 8:36:17 AM PDT by davandbar
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To: mandaladon

What friggin’ country are we in?!


52 posted on 09/18/2014 8:37:09 AM PDT by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: aomagrat

Viva la France! ;-)


53 posted on 09/18/2014 8:38:08 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: mandaladon
“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.”

Should most definitely be taken to the Supreme Court. Let the left defend this.

54 posted on 09/18/2014 8:38:46 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: duffee
It should NEVER, anywhere or anytime be inappropiate for the American Flag to be displayed in America.

Actually, wearing the flag as a shirt is against the US Code:

"The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery." 4 USC Section 8d

55 posted on 09/18/2014 8:39:11 AM PDT by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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To: fungoking

Maybe the tax payers should start paying taxes in Pesos.


56 posted on 09/18/2014 8:40:05 AM PDT by precisionshootist
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To: mandaladon

The ruling is illegal.
It violates the First Amendment.


57 posted on 09/18/2014 8:41:19 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: mandaladon

59 posted on 09/18/2014 8:42:04 AM PDT by Lucky9teen (Justice will not be served until those who r unaffected r as outraged as those who r. B Franklin)
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To: gwgn02

It’s time for a nation wide protest of this las chorradas.

I say on Cinco De Mayo we ALL wear American Tshirts no matter where we are. F the 9th circus court.


60 posted on 09/18/2014 8:43:26 AM PDT by Lucky9teen (Justice will not be served until those who r unaffected r as outraged as those who r. B Franklin)
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