SIMI VALLEY : District, ACLU to Discuss School Suit
Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union and the Simi Valley school district will meet March 2 to discuss settling a federal lawsuit against the school district.
The settlement hearing was ordered by U.S. District Judge Irving Hill, ACLU attorney Marvin Krakow said, “to see if there is a way to resolve this without a lawsuit.”
ACLU lawyers filed a federal lawsuit against Simi Valley school officials in September for allegedly violating a 14-year-old Valley View Junior High School student’s constitutional rights to express himself.
Ninth-grader John Spindler was sent home from school for wearing patriotic T-shirts that violated the school’s dress code. The policy bans shirts with writing or pictures on them in an attempt to curb campus violence and promote a professional school atmosphere.
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