What's on SCOTUS' docket? The justices met Friday to decide whether or not to hear Dariano vs. Morgan Hill Unified School District, an appeal that asks if wearing an American flag shirt is a right protected under the First Amendment or a fashion statement that could provoke violence.
The Los Angeles Times reports that the controversy began in 2010 at Live Oak High School, south of San Jose, California. Several students, responding to a group of Mexican-American students who had paraded campus with a Mexican flag on Cinco de Mayo the year before, wore U.S. flags on the Mexican holiday in protest. The Mexican-American students, protesting racism, complained to the school's principal, who told the students to turn their shirts inside-out or go home.
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