February 22, 2004

By: Don French
Website: http://www.1st-in-flags.com

Confederate flag case to be tried in Kentucky

A status conference in a Lexington Federal court will determine a trial date in a Confederate Flag case remanded in March by the 6th Circuit, Unites States Court of Appeal.

Timothy Castorina, a student at Madison High School in Richmond, KY was suspended for wearing a Hank Williams, Jr. T-shirt bearing a Confederate Flag back in 1997. His Mother brought suit for violation of her sons rights and a Federal Court in Lexington dismissed the case. On appeal the 6th Circuit unanimously agreed that the case should not have been dismissed and sent it back for trial.

The school could have appealed to the Supreme court of the United States, but chose not to do so, which makes the pro-Confederate Flag / student free speech decision binding on all schools in the 6th Circuit which includes the Southern states of Kentucky and Tennessee. The decision is also the only pro-Confederate flag school decision in the entire US Circuit Courts of Appeal.

The case will be tried for Timothy Castorina by Richmond, Kentucky Attorney Earl Ray Neal and by Chief Trial Counsel Kirk D. Lyons of the SLRC.

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Author Notes:

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