How Appealing (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
"Court backs Pledge of Allegiance refusal": The Palm Beach Post today contains an article that begins, "A federal appeals court has upheld the right of former Palm Beach County student Cameron Frazier to refuse to stand for the Pledge of...
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
... if they do not, said Randall Marshall, an American Civil Liberties Union attorney who represented Cameron Frazier.Frazier was a junior at Boynton Beach High in 2005 when he refused to stand during the pledge and spent the rest of the day in the office after his teacher berated him for his disrespect, according to the original lawsuit.Frazier did not have his parents'...
ACLU (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida today claimed victory in its federal lawsuit, Cameron Frazier v. Cynthia Alexandre et al, as the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an earlier District Court decision preventing a Palm Beach County school from requiring a student from standing to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. The court left the decision that Cameron...
The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
A U.S. appeals court has upheld a parent's right to keep a student from saying the Pledge of Allegiance, despite a Florida law requiring students to recite it. But the court left uncertain the question of whether a mature student may refuse or say the pledge without parental guidance. The court, in a ruling Wednesday, upheld the right of a former student, Cameron Frazier, not to recite...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
In 2005, Cameron Frazier, then a 17-year-old junior at Boynton Beach Community High School in Palm Beach County, filed a lawsuit against the school district after his math teacher ordered him to stand while the class recited the pledge. He refused. That allegedly prompted the math teacher to call him "unpatriotic" and order him out of her classroom.
Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
... parental excuse and was punished for refusing to recite the pledge.Teacher Cynthia Alexandre told Cameron Frazier, then a 17-year-old junior at Boynton Beach High School, that he was "so ungrateful and so un-American" after he twice refused to stand for the pledge, according to the lawsuit.U.S. District Judge Kenneth Ryskamp struck down the compulsory pledge law on June 1, 2006. Ryskamp...
Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
... parental excuse and was punished for refusing to recite the pledge.Teacher Cynthia Alexandre told Cameron Frazier, then a 17-year-old junior at Boynton Beach High School, that he was "so ungrateful and so un-American" after he twice refused to stand for the pledge, according to the lawsuit.U.S. District Judge Kenneth Ryskamp struck down the compulsory pledge law on June 1, 2006. Ryskamp...
