Federal Judge Upholds Ban on Stick-Mounted Flags at Ole Miss Stadium

A federal judge has upheld the University of Mississippi's right to bar fans from waving flags on sticks at its home football games. The policy was challenged by a man who was told to put away a Confederate flag at a game two years ago.

Judge Neal B. Biggers, Jr., ruled in November in favor of the university's two-year-old "stick ban," which prohibits people from entering the university's Vaught-Hemingway Stadium with any flag larger than 12 by 14 inches that

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