School Says Parent’s Threatening Board Meeting Behavior Not Protected Speech

( March 13, 2025, 12:09 PM EDT) -- CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — In a lawsuit by a school parent alleging that a school district deprived him of his First Amendment rights in banning him from attending school board meetings because of his allegedly disruptive and threatening behavior in protest of the board’s masking and vaccination policies during the COVID-19 pandemic, the school district on March 12 moved for summary judgment, arguing that the parent’s behavior was not constitutionally protected and that the school officials were entitled to qualified immunity....