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By VALERIE KALFRIN
The Tampa Tribune
TAMPA - A U.S. District Court judge on Thursday found the Hillsborough County school district did not violate people’s First Amendment rights by blocking a series of e-mails sent in November opposing the board’s decision to remove certain religious holidays from the school calendar.
David Caton, president of the nonprofit Florida Family Association Inc., which promotes biblical values, organized an “action alert” to about 8,500 of its supporters in November to ask board members to reconsider removing Yom Kippur, Good Friday and the day after Easter from the school calendar, court papers state. After some of the e-mails went through the system, others were blocked, court papers state.
Upon reviewing written communication that occurred during the blocking, District Court Judge Susan C. Bucklew found that the district did not block the messages because of religious content but because the district thought the volume of messages might clog or disable the e-mail system.
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