Morgan v. Swanson

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · Decided 2011-09-27

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BENAVIDES, Circuit Judge: This is a qualified immunity appeal that asks us to decide whether defendant school principals violated clearly established law when they restricted elementary students from distributing written religious materials while at school. Answering this question requires recourse to a complicated body of law that seeks, often clumsily, to balance a number of competing First Amendment imperatives. This body…

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