Federal court rules against student wearing message T-shirt
A federal appeals court ruled that a Texas school district dress code did not deprive students of the First Amendment rights of expression. A student sued after the school banned his shirt supporting John Edwards for president. -DB First Amendment Law Prof Blog August 24, 2009 By Kathleen Bergin The First Amendment doesn’t prohibit a dress code that prohibits The ‘First Amendment’. So said a three judge panel of the Fifth Circuit this month in Palmer v.