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Source: TCPalm.com , ACLU press release FL anti-gay schools OKEECHOBEE, Fla -- In a move the American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday called "groundbreaking," a federal judge has ruled in favor of students who claimed the school board in this rural district discriminated against them by...

Source: Walton Sun , Fort Mills Times FL anti-gay schools PONCE DE LEON, Fla -- A panhandle high-school principal led a "relentless crusade" against homosexuality at Ponce de Leon High School, a federal judge said in court documents filed Thursday. The judge's $325,000 against the school...

Source: North County Times , Lambda Legal press release SAN DIEGO -- Three years after a jury awarded a pair of gay students $300,000 for harassment by their Poway High School classmates, school district attorneys were in court Friday asking a three-judge panel to overturn the verdict. The students who...

Source: Northwest Florida Daily News , WMBB-TV FL anti-gay schools PANAMA CITY -- Saying "the core message here is of tolerance and fairness," a judge ruled today Heather Gillman can wear a t-shirt with pro-gay messages. U.S. District Judge Richard Smoak decided Tuesday the Holmes County School...

Source: Eyewitness News, Memphis Memphis City Schools is defending a high school principal who was charged by the ACLU with violating the rights of two gay students whose names were posted to a list of student couples. In a letter released yesterday, the school district says that the at Hollis F. Price...

Source: WPTY TV , ACLU press release MEMPHIS, TN -- A Memphis high school principal who "outed" two gay high school students in September 2007 violated the students' constitutional right to freedom of association, the American Civil Liberties Union charged today. The ACLU said Daphne Beasley...

Source: Naperville Sun The third time was the charm for a Neuqua Valley High School student who wants to express his sentiments on homosexuality by wearing a “Be Happy, Not Gay” T-shirt to class. Neuqua sophomore Alex Nuxoll had twice filed for an injunction that would suspend what his anti-gay activist...

Source: Palm Beach Post , TCPalm FL anti-gay schools Okeechobee, Fla. -- A see-saw legal battle over a gay-straight club Okeechobee High School took another bounce Wednesday when a federal judge tossed out the lawsuit filed by a then-student at who said she was wrongfully denied the right to start a...

Source: Associated Press ASHLAND, Ky. -- A federal appeals court yesterday tossed out one of several lawsuits challenging school policies related to gay-straight clubs or to the annual day of silence. One judge called the suit trivial. Timothy Morrison, a senior at Boyd County High School, sued the the...

Source: Huntsville Times SCOTTSBORO, Ala. - They just wanted to go to their school prom, but for one couple at Scottsboro High in Alabama, it took more than the usual dressmakers and hairstylists to get ready. For Chelsea Overstreet and Lauren Martin, lawyers and a judge had to intervene before the school...