T-shirt against war on Iraq: Judge backs US student

A Federal court judge ruled on Wednesday that a Detroit-area school acted improperly in barring a student anti-war protester from wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with a picture of President George W. Bush and the words ‘‘International Terrorist’’.

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit in March claiming that the constitutional rights of Bretton Barber were violated a month earlier by Dearborn High School when it ordered him to either wear the T-shirt inside out or go home. In a preliminary injunction, US District Court Judge Patrick Duggan in Detroit said the school had failed to back its claim that the T-shirt threatened to create a ‘‘disturbance or disruption’’ at Dearborn High.