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PYLE BY AND THROUGH PYLE v. SO. HADLEY SCHOOL COM.

Civ. A. No. 93-30102-MAP.

861 F.Supp. 157 (1994)

Jeffrey J. PYLE and Jonathan H. Pyle, By and Through his father and next friend, Christopher H. PYLE, Plaintiffs, v. The SOUTH HADLEY SCHOOL COMMITTEE, Charles F. Kimball, Individually and in his capacity as Interim Superintendent of South Hadley High School, Paul Raymond, Individually and in his capacity as Interim Principal of South Hadley High School, and Donna Theroux-Cole, Steven M. Marantz, Chairman, Robert L. Gouin, Mary Jo Moore, Kevin Taugher, Individually, and in their capacity as Members of the South Hadley School Committee, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

August 26, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Reinstein, Civ. Liberties Union of Mass., Boston, MA, William Newman, Civil Liberties Union, Northampton, MA, Sarah Wunsch, Mass. Civil Liberties Union Fdn., Boston, MA, for plaintiffs.

Raymond R. Randall, Ryan, Boudreau, Randall & Kirkpatrick, South Hadley, MA, for defendants.

MEMORANDUM

PONSOR, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

This case is a reminder that it is easy to assume a tempest in a teapot is trivial, unless you happen to be in the teapot.

The tumult here arose when two students at South Hadley High School wore T-shirts — one reading "See Dick Drink. See Dick Drive. See Dick Die. Don't be a Dick" and the other reading "Coed Naked Band: Do It To the Rhythm" — that teachers,...

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