November 1st, 2010 
davidguide Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – A federal district court judge has approved a settlement agreement in which a New York school district will pay $25,000 in damages to a student it punished in May for wearing a rosary to school, according to the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ).
School officials in Schenectady also agreed to expunge the record of Raymond Hosier, a 7th grade student at Oneida Middle School, under the agreement approved October 30, 2010 by U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence E. Kahn, the ACLJ said Monday.
The school district had a dress code policy that banned the wearing of a Rosary to school regarding it as a gang symbol. This policy was changed in September, four months after the ACLJ obtained a court injunction that cleared Hosier to return to school for the remainder of the year without fear of further punishment.
Hosier was indefinitely suspended in May for wearing a rosary to school in violation of the dress code policy. The ACLJ immediately came into the defense of the student and asked the school district to correct its action on grounds that the suspension violates Hosier’s constitutional right to free speech.
The school district refused forcing the ACLJ to file a federal lawsuit in June. The court immediately ordered the school district to lift the suspension and let Hosier continue attending school.
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