A high school football coach, disciplined for kneeling and praying on the field at the end of games, has lost his bid to have have his First Amendment challenge heard by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The justices on Tuesday declined to hear arguments in the case Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, which confronted whether public school teachers and coaches retain any First Amendment rights when at work and “in the general presence of” students.

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