# JACKSON THOMPSON: NH school district pays $275K after banning fathers’ for ‘XX’ wristbands at soccer game

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/jackson-thompson-nh-school-district-pays-275k-after-banning-fathers-for-xx-wristbands-at-soccer-game/
- Published: 2026-11-06T10:44:46+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-06T13:07:23+00:00
- Original publisher: Fox News (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.foxnews.com/outkick-sports/new-hampshire-school-district-pays-275k-banning-fathers-xx-wristbands-girls-soccer-game
- Topics: Football, Sport, World

## Key points

- District judgment says the wristband ban violated free-speech rights.
- Its risk pool will pay $275,000 in legal fees and costs.
- The ruling protects silent wristband protests at district sporting events.

## Summary

A New Hampshire school district has agreed to a federal judgment declaring that banning four people from silently wearing “XX” wristbands at a girls’ football match violated their First Amendment rights. The decision ends more than two years of litigation and protects the plaintiffs’ right to wear the bands at Bow School District sporting events.

The district’s risk pool, Primex, will pay $275,000 in legal fees and costs: $225,000 to the Institute for Free Speech and $50,000 to a local law firm. Each plaintiff will also receive $17.91, a sum chosen to refer to 1791, when the First Amendment was ratified. An appeals court had found the silent protest caused no material disruption before officials intervened, and there was no evidence any player saw the wristbands.

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