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Morgan Hill, Calif.

Flag T-shirt ruling: An appeals court dismayed conservatives and free speech advocates last week when it ruled that a California school acted properly in barring students from wearing American flag T-shirts on the Mexican-American holiday Cinco de Mayo. The case dates back to May 5, 2010, when the principal of Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill told students wearing the T-shirts to turn them inside out or take them off. A panel of judges from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said that the school’s decision was correct given the “ongoing racial tension and gang violence within the school,” and that school officials had “presciently avoided an altercation.” William Becker, a lawyer for one of the students, lambasted the decision, saying it “upheld the rights of Mexican students celebrating a holiday of another country over U.S. students proudly supporting this country.” He said he would seek a rehearing of the case.

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