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HEDGES v. WAUCONDA COMMUNITY SCHOOL DIST. 118

No. 92-3779.

9 F.3d 1295 (1993)

Megan Renee HEDGES, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. WAUCONDA COMMUNITY UNIT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 118, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided November 23, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles E. Hervas (argued), James G. Sotos, Hervas, Sotos & Condon, Itasca, IL, for plaintiffs-appellees.

William W. Kurnik, Kurnik, Cipolla, Stephenson & Barasha, Stanley B. Eisenhammer (argued), Alice M. Ralph, Heather K. Brickman, Francine R. Fishel, Hodges, Loizzi, Eisenhammer, Rodick & Kohn, Arlington Heights, IL, for defendants-appellants.

Marc D. Stern, American Jewish Congress, New York City, for American Jewish Congress, amicus curiae.

David R. Day, Johnson, Smith, Densborn, Wright & Heath, Indianapolis, IN, for National School Boards Ass'n, amicus curiae.

Mary Ann L. Wymore, Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale, St. Louis, MO, S. Mark Goodman, Student Press Law Center, Washington, DC, for Student Press Law Center, amicus curiae.

Steven T. McFarland, Bradley P. Jacob, Center for Law & Religious Freedom, Annandale, VA, Thomas C. Berg, Birmingham, AL, for Christian Legal Soc., amicus curiae.

Before BAUER, EASTERBROOK, and RIPPLE, Circuit Judges.

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

Megan Hedges belongs to the Wauconda Evangelical Free Church. On November 2, 1990, while in eighth grade, she distributed a church publication, Issues and Answers, outside her school, the Wauconda Junior High School, before the start of the school day. Principal Christine Golden retrieved the pamphlets from the pupils and told Megan not to distribute such literature again. At the time, the school district had a policy (the 1990 Policy...

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