American flag case: court sides with Calif. school officials in flap over students' T-shirts
Source: San Jose Mercury News
A South Bay high school did not violate the constitutional rights of students who were ordered to turn their American-flag adorned shirts inside out during a 2010 Cinco de Mayo celebration, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.
In a unanimous three-judge decision, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the Morgan Hill Unified School District, which had argued that a history of problems on the holiday justified the Live Oak High School administrators' decision to take action against the flag-wearing students.
Live Oak officials ordered the students to either cover up the U.S. flag shirts or go home, citing a history of threats and campus strife between Latino and Anglo students that raised fears of violence on the day the school was highlighting the Mexican holiday. The school's actions were reasonable given the safety concerns, which outweighed the students' First Amendment claims, the court concluded.
... The legal flap stems from the parents' First Amendment lawsuit, which argues no circumstances warrant a school forbidding a student from wearing a shirt with the American flag. In interviews with this newspaper, the families of the students said the students were only showing their patriotism and did not intend to incite trouble with Latino students on Cinco de Mayo.
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"and did not intend to incite trouble with Latino students on Cinco de Mayo."
If you believe that, perhaps you'd like to take a gander at this.
How many other days do you think these kids "show their patriotism"?! 
