Judge’s Ruling Allows Senior to Stay at Palisades High

A senior who was ordered transferred to another school as punishment for his role in a controversial student newspaper has won a court battle to remain at Pacific Palisades High School.

Los Angeles Unified School District officials confirmed Tuesday that Jeremy Meyer, 17, will remain in school until graduation because of a U.S. District Court judge’s decision.

Judge Lourdes G. Baird issued the order Monday. Although school administrators required Meyer to transfer to Taft High School two months ago, Meyer won a temporary restraining order weeks later allowing him to return to Pacific Palisades. Monday’s order makes the stay permanent.

On Tuesday, Meyer’s lawyer, Carol Sobel, said she hoped to rescind the forced transfers of three other students as well.

Meyer was ordered transferred when school officials learned he had written a letter that appeared in an underground newspaper. The letter asked why students were disciplined for their involvement in the paper, which ridiculed certain teachers and contained numerous obscenities and descriptions of sexual acts.

In her order, Baird wrote that the school’s transfer of Baird would cause the student irreparable harm. The judge also discounted faculty assertions that his attendance would be dangerous or damaging to the school.

In all, 11 students were disciplined for their involvement in the paper. School officials said Tuesday that the court order was specific to Meyer’s case.