share: digg facebook twitter The cheerleader, known in court papers as H.S., claimed that officials at Silsbee High School violated her First Amendment and due-process rights when they punished her for refusing to cheer for a basketball player who allegedly sexually assaulted her. In rejecting H.S.’s First Amendment claim, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reasoned in its September 2010 decision Doe v.