Farm Gets Trial Over Canceled School Field Trips, Judges Say

Because a California school district didn’t show it permanently stopped its allegedly discriminatory activity against a farm, the business was entitled to trial on whether the district’s policy violated its First Amendment rights, a federal appeals court said.

A divided panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said in an unpublished opinion Wednesdaythat Claremont Unified School District should not have been granted summary judgment on the constitutional claim brought by Riley’s American Heritage Farms. The district court erroneously concluded that actions taken by the district after an earlier appeal had conclusively put an end to ...