Fast track for student case sought
on Nov 2, 2006 at 4:25 pm
Lawyers for a California brother and sister involved in a constitutional dispute over their right to wear a message-bearing T-shirt to public school asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to move up the case on the docket and consider it along with another student free-speech case pending before the Court. The motion to expedite in Harper, et al., v. Poway Unified School District, et al., (06-595) can be found through a link at the website of the Alliance Defense Fund, representing the Californians.
That motion was filed one day before the Court was scheduled to consider the other student case, Morse, et al., v. Frederick (06-278) at Friday’s Conference. (The Court’s electronic docket shows the Morse case scheduled for consideration Friday.) The Morse case is about public school officials’ authority to suspend a student for display a pro-drug banner at a school-related event. The Harper case involves a student who was disciplined for wearing a T-shirt bearing an anti-homosexual message.
