Update: Judge Orders School to Allow Boy Suspended from School for wearing rosary to return to class

Tuesday, June 1, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Raymond J. Dague,
Syracuse, New York 315-422-2052
http://www.daguelaw.com/

(Syracuse, NY) – Last week a 13 year old boy in Oneida Middle School was suspended from school for wearing a rosary to class. But hours after a lawsuit was filed today in court challenging the suspension, Albany based federal district court Judge Lawrence E. Kahn signed a court order which directed the school to let the boy attend class at the school until the court hears the case on June 11, 2010. Until that court date, the judge said he can wear the rosary which is the subject of this lawsuit.

Further details of the boy’s suspension and the lawsuit which was filed this morning are in the earlier press release. (see post below)

“The judge made a wise decision to let the boy back into the school while this case is pending,” said attorney Raymond Dague of Syracuse, one of the attorneys affiliated with the American Center for Law and Justice who filed the lawsuit on behalf of 13-year-old Raymond and his mother, Chantell Hosier. “I would predict that the judge will ultimately agree with us, and tell the school that they were wrong to suspend him. But you’ve just got to wonder what these public school officials were thinking!”

The lawsuit will not end on the day the judge hears the case for motions on June 11th, but all of the parties should get a good idea then as to where this lawsuit is headed.

American Center for Law and Justice focuses on constitutional law and is based in Washington, D.C.