Ruling: Recalculate court costs for cheerleader

An appeals court has ordered a lower court to recalculate how much a former Texas high school cheerleader should pay in legal fees to the school district that punished for refusing to root for an athlete she said raped her.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans said the lower court erred in finding that one of the four claims of the former cheerleader was frivolous. But the appeals court says the other three were frivolous.

The court said the fees should be recalculated based on those claims

The former cheerleader had been ordered to pay almost $39,000 to the Silsbee school district.

The girl had refused to root for a basketball player during a 2009 playoff game. She was suspended as a cheerleader but later reinstated.

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