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A school district in North Carolina has been ordered to admit their mistake, issue an apology, fork over $20,000, and more after they were sued for suspending a 16-year-old student who used the term “illegal aliens.”
The settlement was approved on Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, following a year-long legal battle after a 16-year-old student and his parents sued Davidson County Schools for the mischaracterization of racial bias and violation of the student’s First Amendment rights.
“Although the parties initially moved to seal the revised settlement agreement, they have since withdrawn any request to seal any version of their settlement,” Judge Thomas Schroeder stated in his Tuesday order.
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Settlement orders school to formally apologize and pay $20,000 to student suspended for