'Barbie Is A Lesbian' T-Shirt Suit Settled

[matcom]

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City public schools will allow students to wear clothes with political slogans after settling a lawsuit with a teen-age girl who was suspended for wearing a T-shirt that said "Barbie is a Lesbian," her lawyer said on Thursday.

"Students in the nation's largest school district will now have the First Amendment right to wear T-shirts and armbands that express controversial political views," attorney Ronald Kuby said.

Some 1.1 million students attend New York City public schools.

The city also agreed to pay $30,000 to Kuby's client, 15-year-old Natalie Young, a lesbian who was sent to the principal's office in April 2002 when she showed up at her school in the Queens borough wearing her "Barbie is a Lesbian" T-shirt.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=573&e=6&u=/nm/20040402/od_nm/life_barbie_dc

[underpants]

1. Yeah but she's got a place in Malibu

:bounce:

[GOPisEvil]

2. ...and a sweet 'Vette!

:D

[matcom]

3. well, she DID dump Ken

:D

[GOPisEvil]

5. Hey, she's got a sister, too!

(wink, wink, nudge, nudge)

[emad]

4. This time the Mods didn't lock me up:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x459201

[commander bunnypants]

6. HAH

Back in the eighties I got suspended for wearing a shirt with a Canadian maple leaf. Guess they thought I was advocating pot.

DDQM

[TXlib]

7. Really? What rationale did they give for suspending you?

[commander bunnypants]

8. they said the maple leaf looked like a pot leaf

????????????

They also would not let me wear a budweiser shirt..

It was in hickville USA

DDQM