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SEYFRIED v. WALTON

Civ. A. No. 81-117.

512 F.Supp. 235 (1981)

James E. SEYFRIED, Individually and as next friend of Debbie Seyfried, a minor child; Frances L. Taylor, Individually and as next friend of Keith Robert Taylor, a minor child, and Durward Allen Ekas, Individually and as next friend of Deborah Ekas, a minor child, Plaintiffs, v. Bruce R. WALTON, Gooden T. Warren, Joshua T. West, Wellford W. Inge and Kenneth LaVere, Individually and as members of the Board of Education of the Caesar Rodney School District, F. Neil Postlethwaite, Individually and as Superintendent of the Caesar Rodney School District, and Caesar Rodney School District, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Delaware.

April 14, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ernest S. Wilson, Jr., Wilson & Whittington, Wilmington, Del., and John R. Williams, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell, Dover, Del., for plaintiffs.

Nicholas H. Rodriguez, Catherine T. Hickey, Schmittinger & Rodriguez, Dover, Del., for defendants.

OPINION

STAPLETON, District Judge:

The plaintiffs in this civil rights actions are students who attend a public secondary school and their parents. They contend that their First Amendments rights were violated when the District Superintendent determined that a proposed production of the Broadway musical "Pippin" would be inappropriate as a school sponsored production. The facts relevant to this claim can be briefly stated.

THE FACTS

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