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In May of 2009, a Cinco de Mayo event at Live Oak High School (a school with a history of violence and gang issues) in Morgan Hill, California, sparked a clash between white students and students of Mexican descent; and the following year five non-Mexican Live Oak students chose to attend school on Cinco de Mayo wearing T-shirts and bandanas bearing representations of the U.S. flag. School officials, concerned that the five students' U.S. flag garb would provoke hostilities and fights with Mexican-American students, directed those students to change their clothing (by removing their bandanas and turning their shirts inside-out) or go home, as outlined in court documents: The two students who declined to change their clothing and went home brought suit against the school district and school administrators, alleging violations of their federal and California constitutional rights to freedom of expression and their federal constitutional rights to equal protection and due process. In November 2011, that lawsuit was dismissed by a U.S. District Court judge: In February 2014, a U.S. Court of Appeals three-judge panel (not the U.S. Supreme Court) upheld the district court's ruling, stating that: On 30 March 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court announced it had declined to hear an appeal of the case:
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