PRESS RELEASE:
Contact: Kirk D. Lyons 828-669-5189
26 APRIL 2001
Confederate Flag Case to
Be Tried in Kentucky
Black Mountain, NC - A
status conference in a Lexington Federal court will determine a trial
date in a Confederate Flag case remanded in March by the 6th Circuit,
Unites States Court of Appeal.
Timothy Castorina, a student at Madison High School
in Richmond, KY was suspended for wearing a Hank Williams, Jr. T-shirt
bearing a Confederate Flag back in 1997. His Mother brought suit for
violation of her sons rights and a Federal Court in Lexington dismissed
the case. On appeal the 6th Circuit unanimously agreed that the case
should not have been dismissed and sent it back for trial. The school
could have appealed to the Supreme court of the United States, but chose
not to do so, which makes the pro-Confederate Flag / student free speech
decision binding on all schools in the 6th Circuit which includes the
Southern states of Kentucky and Tennessee. The decision is also the only
pro-Confederate flag school decision in the entire US Circuit Courts of
Appeal.
The case will be tried for Timothy Castorina by
Richmond, Kentucky Attorney Earl Ray Neal and by Chief Trial Counsel
Kirk D. Lyons of the SLRC.
Timothy Castorina and the SLRC was strongly
supported by the Kentucky Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans (and
the national organization), who have been integrally involved in the
case since its inception. Division Commander Donald Shelton and Kentucky
Division members attended the oral arguments before the 6th Circuit in
Cincinnati which was argued for Castorina by Attorney (and SCV member)
Chad K. Sayre.
The SLRC is non-profit, tax exempt, South Carolina
public law firm that specializes in cases involving Southern Heritage
violations.
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