Four months later when it came time to cheer for the basketball team, Hillaire refused. Her coach told her she had to cheer “for everyone” or leave. So she left. She was then kicked off the cheerleading squad, which prompted her father to file several …
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Free Speech Lawsuit By Student Forced to Cheer Rapist Found Not “Frivolous” – Change.org (blog)
HS was removed from the cheerleading squad by Superintendent Richard Bain for asserting that she would not cheer for her rapist by name. This incident and the school’s general misconduct motivated her family to bring a lawsuit against the school …
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Cheer Her Rapist? Let’s Make Noise Over This – Women’s eNews
A Texas teen was expelled from her cheerleading squad for refusing to cheer for a guy accused of raping her. The courts have let her down, so about a dozen of us who are former NFL cheerleaders are standing up. …
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Supreme Court Won’t Review Duty To Cheer For Your Rapist – CR-CL Amicus Online
The Supreme Court has declined to take the case of a Texas high school cheerleader who was kicked off the squad after refusing to cheer for the basketball player whom she alleges raped her. The Fifth Circuit ruling not only upheld the school’s right to …
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Cheers for nothing, ‘rapist’ – The Guardian
HS, with the support of her family, told the school district to get stuffed, and was put to the test in 2009 when she attended a basketball game as a member of the cheerleading squad and was ordered to cheer for her attacker. Understandably, HS refused …
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Court Orders Cheerleader to Pay School $45k for Refusing to Cheer Rapist – Gather.com
In the initial case, a cheerleader (identified in records only as HS) claims the school violated her rights to free speech by ejecting her from the cheerleading squad, for refusing to cheer one player she says had raped her, four months earlier. …
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Cheerleader must compensate school that told her to clap ‘rapist’ – The Independent
A teenage girl who was dropped from her high school’s cheerleading squad after refusing to chant the name of a basketball player who had sexually assaulted her must pay compensation of $ 45000 (£27300) after losing a legal …
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SF Chronicle: The cheerleader, the alleged rapist and the chant – Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
… school principal told her that she would have to chant the player’s name or go home. She held her ground and was dismissed from the cheerleading squad.
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