The mother of two students at Howell High School filed a lawsuit alleging that the school district’s anti-bullying policies violate her children’s rights to freedom of speech and religion because they were raised to believe that homosexuality is wrong.
In 2012, the ACLU filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case, arguing that both anti-bullying policies and the First Amendment can co-exist, and that Howell’s policy does not impinge on religious students’ First Amendment rights.
In June 2013, Judge Patrick Duggan agreed with the ACLU and rejected the challenge to Howell’s anti-bullying policy.
(Glowacki v. Howell Public School District; ACLU of Michigan Attorneys Jay Kaplan, Dan Korobkin and Michael J. Steinberg; National ACLU Attorney Rose Saxe.)
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