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"5th Circuit: Cheerleader can't refuse to cheer."

"5th Circuit: Cheerleader can't refuse to cheer." Online at the First Amendment Center, David L. Hudson Jr. has a news analysis that begins, "A former Silsbee, Texas, high school cheerleader did not have a First Amendment right to refuse to cheer for a basketball player she claimed had sexually assaulted her, a federal appeals court panel has ruled."

You can access last Thursday's non-precedential ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit at this link.

And in related news coverage from last week, "Former high school football star pleads guilty to assault in cheerleader case."

Full post as published by How Appealing on September 24, 2010 (boomark / email).