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A lawyer sided Thursday with a Montana high school that suspended a student for wearing a Confederate flag hooded sweatshirt.

Attorney Elizabeth Kaleva acknowledged the competing interests of recognizing students’ free speech rights and preventing disruption to the education process, but sided with Missoula County Public High Schools in its ability to prevent Big Sky High School student Mitchell Ballas from wearing a Confederate flag sweatshirt, reported the Missoulian.

“There are a lot of cases actually where the use of the Confederate flag has been banned at schools and been upheld,” Kaleva told the Missoulian. The attorney, who represents Montana school districts such as Missoula, pleadedguilty to a DUI in February after crashing her SUV off a road. She previously received DUI convictions in 2013 and 2005.

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