A high school junior in North Carolina is suing her school district over a school club quiz game school leaders allegedly banned because it focuses on “indecent” LGBTQ+ subject matter.
The quiz game’s prohibition amounted to censorship that violated M.K.'s First Amendment free speech, expression, and association rights, the student alleges in her suit filed Wednesday in the US District Court for the Western District of North Carolina.
Superintendent Stephen Fisher and the nine members of the Cleveland County Board of Education imposed a prior restraint on speech, and discriminated based on content and viewpoint, M.K. says. The defendants also ...
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