The charges were dropped down to assault a year later and the player was given probation.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in November 2010 that the victim — who is identified only as H.S.

— had no right to refuse to applaud her attacker, because as a cheerleader in uniform, she was an agent of the school.

The Fifth Circuit dismissed her case as "frivolous" and sanctioned the girl, ordering her family to pay the school district's $35,000–45,000 legal fees.

[2][3][4] A later judgment ruled that one of the claims was not frivolous and ordered the amount owed recalculated based on this finding.