FRASER v. BETHEL SCHOOL DIST. NO. 403

Nos. 83-3987, 83-4142.

755 F.2d 1356 (1985)

Matthew N. FRASER, a minor, and E.L. Fraser, as his Guardian Ad Litem, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. BETHEL SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 403, Christy B. Ingle; David C. Rich; J. Bruce Alexander; and Gerald E. Hosman, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided March 4, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey T. Haley, Simburg, Ketter, Haley, Sheppard & Purdy, Seattle, Wash., for plaintiffs-appellees.

William A. Coats, Clifford Foster, Jr., Kane, Vandeberg, Hartinger & Walker, Tacoma, Wash., for defendants-appellants.

Before WRIGHT, GOODWIN and NORRIS, Circuit Judges.


NORRIS, Circuit Judge:

Bethel School District appeals a judgment for declaratory and injunctive relief, damages, and $12,750 costs and attorney's fees in this civil rights action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by a student who claimed that the district had abridged his freedom of speech as protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments. We affirm.

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On April 26, 1983, appellee Matthew N. Fraser, then a seventeen-year-old senior at Bethel High...

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