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."