(FORTUNE Magazine) – A Covina high school student who complained that she was dismissed as the school's drum major because she did not sell enough candy in a fund-raising drive lost a bid for reinstatement . . . Pomona Superior Court Judge Burton Bach ruled that Lisa Ortiz's request for an injunction . . . was moot because the band won't be needing a drum major for the rest of the school year. Ortiz, 17, said she will go forward with her lawsuit, in which she alleges that ((she was)) unfairly dismissed . . . as drum major after she sold only one box of 48 chocolate bars . . . But with the football season ended, the only event remaining on the schedule . . . was the 37th annual Covina Christmas Parade . . . And school officials said that ((they)) did not submit an application to parade . . . this year . . . Ortiz's attorney . . . argued that the decision not to have the . . . band march in the parade was a ploy to avoid having to reinstate Ortiz . . . -- From a news report in the Los Angeles Times.