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(46,742 posts) Fri Aug 21, 2015, 11:52 AM Aug 2015

ACLU suit against Lake schools' denial of gay-straight alliance dismissed

A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union against the Lake County School Board for preventing students at a Leesburg middle school from forming a gay-straight-alliance club to fight bullying..

Ruling in favor of the school district, U.S. District Judge William Terrell Hodges found no merit in the ACLU's claim under the Equal Access Act, which requires federally funded secondary schools to treat all extracurricular clubs the same. Hodges said the issue also was moot because the request was for last school year.

"He pretty much affirmed the positions we took on all the issues and ruled what we already knew happened: that no discriminatory actions took place by the School Board," school-district attorney Steve Johnson said Thursday.

The suit, filed in late 2013, was the second one filed by the civil-rights organization accusing the district of violating students' freedom of speech and federal rights by not allowing a student to form the club at Carver Middle School.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/lake/os-aclu-gay-straight-alliance-suit-dismissed-20150820-story.html

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ACLU suit against Lake schools' denial of gay-straight alliance dismissed (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Aug 2015 OP

Maybe we need to form an army of non bigot assholes. randys1 Aug 2015 #1

I am surprised that a federal judge would do something like this. Baitball Blogger Aug 2015 #2

Looks like the lawyer sort of screwed up here dsc Aug 2015 #3

randys1

(16,286 posts)

1. Maybe we need to form an army of non bigot assholes.

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Fri Aug 21, 2015, 11:54 AM

Aug 2015

Baitball Blogger

(46,742 posts)

2. I am surprised that a federal judge would do something like this.

Reply to randys1 (Reply #1)

Fri Aug 21, 2015, 12:33 PM

Aug 2015

But there is precedent for federal judges to rule in favor of local Florida government cities and agencies, and in essence, they perpetually lock us in a society which is an insular backwater. Most people who move in don't see it at first, but, if you live here long enough you are bound to see the seams of another world.

Their behavior is so off the charts, that going out for Tums early in the morning can result in a chain reaction that brings out the vigilantes. I'm just guessing that they're sensitive about the mornings because that's the time they usually head off to their breakfast meetings, where the true power and idiocy really takes off.

So, yes, I am dismayed that a federal judge would make a decision that would in anyway legitimize this backwater way of life. It affects us all.

dsc

(52,163 posts)

3. Looks like the lawyer sort of screwed up here

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Fri Aug 21, 2015, 01:14 PM

Aug 2015

I agree that the revision would have never passed muster but they should have submitted one anyhow.

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