March 13, 2013|5:32 pm
A
U.S. Appeals Court ruled on Tuesday that a then-fifth-grade student
should have been allowed to pass out fliers to her classmates to invite
them to a Christmas party at her church as it wouldn't cause
"substantial disruption."
An
earlier news report noted
that the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court upheld a lower court's earlier decision
allowing the student, identified as K.A., to share invitations with her
classmates based on a free speech standard set in a Vietnam-era Supreme
Court case about a high school anti-war protest. Court documents also
highlighted that the law on how the case should affect elementary
schools is still evolving. "The fact that K.A. was only in the
fifth-grade and the invitation originated from her church does not
mandate a different approach," Judge Thomas Vanaskie wrote in his
31-page opinion.
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