Monday, 19 July 2010

Fifth Circuit upholds religious rights of American Indian ki

AUSTIN A federal appeals court recently upheld a lower court ruling that the Needville Independent School District violated Texas state law by punishing a 5-year-old American Indian kindergarten student for wearing his hair in traditional braids as a form of expressing his family';s religious beliefs.

The case was brought by the ACLU

Source:
http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/archive/98609619.html

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