NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal judge is allowing a lawsuit a filed by a student alleging school officials wrongly distributed T-shirts promoting a Republican lawmaker accused of sexual misconduct.
The shirts were for a state Capitol field trip. Rep. David Byrd's attorneys had argued the student didn't attend the field trip, and therefore the case should be dismissed because the student wasn't forced to wear the shirt.
U.S. District Judge Eli Richardson disagreed. On Wednesday, Richardson said Byrd's arguments weren't sufficient. Byrd has been accused of sexual misconduct while he was a high school basketball coach decades ago.
