Assistant Principal Sues Over Principal's Religious E-Mails

In Clay County, Florida, the assistant principal in a public school earlier this month filed a federal lawsuit against the school's principal and the Clay County School Board complaining about religious (as well as political) e-mails sent to faculty by the principal using the principal's school e-mail account. The complaint (full text) in Capriola v. Clay County School District, (MD FL, filed 11/18/2011), pointed to ten separate e-mails with religious or proselytizing messages.  The lawsuit seeks a declaratory judgment that the e-mails violated the free exercise and establishment clauses and seeks an injunction against further similar e-mails. The Jacksonville Times-Union reports on the case.