The school has no intention of banning Mexico-themed T-shirts, though, on any day of the year.

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A Northern California high school's decision to order students wearing American flag T-shirts to turn the garments inside out during a celebration of the holiday Cinco de Mayo was appropriate, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the school officials' concerns of racial violence outweighed students' freedom of expression rights. Administrators feared the American-flag shirts would enflame the passions of Latino students celebrating the Mexican holiday. Live Oak High School, in the San Jose suburb of Morgan Hill, had a history of problems between white and Latino students on that day.

The unanimous three-judge panel said past problems gave school officials sufficient and justifiable reasons for their actions. The court said schools have wide latitude in curbing certain civil rights to ensure campus safety.

"Our role is not to second-guess the decision to have a Cinco de Mayo celebration or the precautions put in place to avoid violence," Judge M. Margaret McKeown wrote for the panel. The past events "made it reasonable for school officials to proceed as though the threat of a potentially violent disturbance was real," she wrote.

The case garnered national attention as many expressed outrage that students were barred from wearing patriotic clothing. The Ann Arbor, Mich.-based American Freedom Law Center, a politically conservative legal aid foundation, and other similar organizations took up the students' case and sued the high school and the school district.

William Becker, one of the lawyers representing the students, said he plans to ask a special 11-judge panel of the appeals court to rehear the case. Becker said he would appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court if he loses again.

"The 9th Circuit upheld the rights of Mexican students celebrating a holiday of another country over U.S. student proudly supporting this country," Becker said.

Cinco de Mayo marks the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, when Mexican troops defeated a French army of Napoleon III, then considered the mightiest military in the world. It is considered a bigger holiday in the U.S., celebrating Mexican heritage with parades and revelry in many major cities.

I'm slightly appalled at how many people have misunderstood the article and are jumping to conclusions that American rights have been violated .
The court was saying that the school was not in the wrong for taking steps to avert a violent situation.
That is all I read. Nobody was told they cannot wear a flag to school ever again. Why the hate?

Please also consider that in that school, the white students may actually be the minority so have you thought the school faculty were acting on THEIR behalf?

Mexican students, guess what? They are US citizens just like you so called "real Americans"...did somebody really imply they aren't?
Have we again forgotten how many of us "real Americans" are only 2 or 3 generations from arriving in Ellis Island from the old country, unable to speak English, unemployed, poor, burdening the country's resources, hated by others, etc?

And to the idiot that thought Mexico lost at the Alamo...well, actually, they won that battle by a landslide.

I'm outta here before I start bringing the collective IQ of the thread up too high. Later.