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A parent who was at the trip noticed the shirt and made an objection to a teacher.
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He wore a T-shirt to school that criticized President Bush as a chicken-hawk president, and a former alcohol and cocaine abuser. To make its point, the shirt displayed images of drugs and alcohol.
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The shirt did not cause any fights, but only discussions among students at school.
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The teacher gave Zach three options: turn the shirt inside-out; tape over the images of the drugs and alcohol and the word "cocaine"; or change shirts.
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The next day Zach wore the shirt, yet this time he covered the drug images with duct tape.
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Zachary sued the school and the school district for violating his First Amendment rights. The judge ruled that Guiles’ freedom of speech rights protected the written words on the t-shirt, but not the pictures.