Civil Rights – First Amendment – Reporter – School Ban – Defamation 
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Published: October 22, 2009
An Abingdon U.S. District Court denies defendant school board summary judgment in this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 lawsuit filed by a reported banned from entering school property because he wrote articles critical of the school administration, but the court dismisses the reporter’s defamation claim.
Virginia’s autonomous county school districts contrast sharply with the Maryland county school ...
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