T-SHIRT SLOGANS AND THE 9th CIRCUIT; MOVING GOODS WITH LESS SMOG; FILMWEEK
T-SHIRT SLOGANS AND THE 9th CIRCUIT
A San Diego teenager who was barred from wearing a T-shirt with anti-gay rhetoric to class has lost a bid to have his high school's dress code suspended. In a ruling today by the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals, the court said the Poway Unified School District could restrict what students wear to school in order to prevent disruptions. A majority of judges said that Tyler Harper was unlikely to prevail on claims that the school district violated his First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and religion for keeping him out of class. Harper filed suit against the district in San Diego federal court after the principal at Poway High School refused to let him attend class wearing the shirt that read "homosexuality is shameful."
MOVING GOODS WITH LESS SMOG
The booming economy of trucks, trains and ships that bring consumer goods from LA's ports to the rest of the country are costing the region in smog and premature deaths from pollution. That's why the California Air Resources board is targeting cargo ships, tractor trailers trucks and freight trains with plans to require emissions reductions to 2001 levels by 2010. But critics say there's no funding for the plan, which will cost as much as $10 billion and there's no means for enforcement. Guest-host Ted Chen discusses the controversial new proposals with experts.
FILMWEEK
Guest host Ted Chen and critics Peter Rainer of the Christian Science Monitor, Andy Klein, film editor and chief critic for both CityBeat and ValleyBeat, and Scott Foundas, film editor for the L.A. Weekly discuss this week's new releases, including American Dreamz, The Sentinel, Standing Still, Drawing Restraint 9, Abominable, Erosion, Somersault, The Almost Guys, Iron Island, and The Syrian Bride.