CARVER SCH. GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE v. SCH. BD.

No. 15-14183.

842 F.3d 1324 (2016)

CARVER MIDDLE SCHOOL GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE, an unincorporated association, H.F., a minor by and through parent Janine Faughnan, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. SCHOOL BOARD OF LAKE COUNTY, FLORIDA, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

December 6, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin Stevenson , ACLU of Florida, Pensacola, FL, Daniel Boaz Tilley , Nancy Gbana Abudu , ACLU Foundation of Florida, Inc., Miami, FL, Leslie Cooper , American Civil Liberties Union of New York State (NYCLU), New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellant Carver Middle School Gay-Straight Alliance.

Stephen Warfield Johnson , McLin & Burnsed, PA, Leesburg, FL, Stephanie J. McCulloch , McLin & Burnsed, PA, Leesburg, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellant School Board of Lake County, Florida.

Benjamin Stevenson , ACLU of Florida, Pensacola, FL, Daniel Boaz Tilley , ACLU Foundation of Florida, Inc., Miami, FL, Leslie Cooper , American Civil Liberties Union of New York State (NYCLU), New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellant H.F., a minor by and through parent Janine Faughnan.

Before MARCUS and WILLIAM PRYOR, Circuit Judges, and DAVIS, District Judge.


This appeal requires us to decide whether a complaint that a school board violated the Equal Access Act when it denied the application of the Carver Gay-Straight Alliance to form a student club is ripe and not moot and whether the Act applies to a public middle school in Florida. After a teacher at Carver Middle School...

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