Suit Over School Rules That Banned Pro-Life T-Shirt Is Settled

Alliance Defense Fund on Wednesday announced the settlement of a lawsuit challenging the policies of a Pennsylvania school district under which a middle school student was told to remove a pro-life T-shirt which carried the message: "Abortion is not Healthcare." (See prior posting.) The Notice of Voluntary Dismissal in E.B. v. West Shore School District, (MD PA, filed 3/17/2010), says that the school district has revised it policy on school expression to eliminate a provision that allowed officials to ban expression that seeks to establish the supremacy of a particular religious denomination or viewpoint. The school district also revised its dress and grooming policy to eliminate a a ban on clothing that creates a hostile educational environment or displays discriminatory bias or animus.