Ex-Student Drops Redneck T-Shirt Lawsuit
The New Jersey Case Was Heard By The U.S. Supreme Court
(CBS/AP) OXFORD TOWNSHIP, N.J. A former Warren Hills Regional School District student has dropped his lawsuit five years after he was suspended for wearing a redneck T-shirt.
Thomas Sypniewski Jr. said it’s time to move on.
The 23-year-old says he thought the shirt was funny at the time, but school officials said it violated the district’s anti-harassment policy.
Sypniewski wore the shirt after a series of incidents in which black students were harassed by white students in 2001.
A federal court ruled the suspension was unconstitutional because the T-shirt had no history of causing problems among students in the Warren County district.
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to consider whether students could be barred from taking their redneck humor to class. The justices rejected the district’s appeal in 2003.
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