Well for starters, it looks like it wa spossibly an accident and not even supposed to be a cross, though there is no doubt that the teacher was religious. A friend of mine who is a lawyer, read the brief and explained it to me. There's also this on wikipedia (I know, wikipedia): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Freshwater#Doe_v._Mount_Vernon_Board_of_Education_et_al
I don't have a link to the brief, otherwise I'd link that too. It's just that this isn't as straight forward as this article make sit seem and there's a reason why this is going to the State Supreme Court.
eta: For the record I don't agree with what this guy did, but this article is not very good.
I don't have a link to the brief, otherwise I'd link that too. It's just that this isn't as straight forward as this article make sit seem and there's a reason why this is going to the State Supreme Court.
eta: For the record I don't agree with what this guy did, but this article is not very good.
eta2: These are the guy's lawyers: https://www.rutherford.org/about/