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Category: Education Law
The School Law Blog - February 09, 2012
A federal appeals court has thrown out a class action on special education in the Milwaukee school district, holding that the lawsuit didn't meet federal rules on defining a class of plaintiffs with common interests.
The three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit,
The School Law Blog - February 07, 2012
In striking down California's ballot initiative barring same-sex marriage, a federal appeals court rejected, among other rationales offered for the measure, the argument that it would protect children from being taught in public schools that gay marriage is the same as traditional marriage.
The School Law Blog - February 03, 2012
A federal appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit that claims girls basketball at an Indiana high school receives less desirable scheduling than the boys team, in violation of Title IX.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, in Chicago, ruled unanimously that
The School Law Blog - January 29, 2012
A federal appeals court has revived the lawsuit of a Michigan graduate student who was expelled from her program in school counseling in a dispute over her refusal to treat gay clients.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, in Cincinnati, ruled unanimously
The School Law Blog - January 27, 2012
A federal appeals court has reversed the conviction of a former Maryland school district chief for "honest-services fraud," but upheld counts involving evidence and witness tampering and obstruction of justice.
The decision came in a case involving Andre J. Hornsby, who was chief executiv
The School Law Blog - January 23, 2012
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned aside an appeal from an Oregon family seeking reimbursement for the private placement of a child in a school charging tuition of $5,200 per month.
The case is noteworthy because the justices in 2009 used it to decide that, in principle, the main fed
The School Law Blog - January 23, 2012
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled unanimously that police officers who entered a home in search of guns amid an investigation of a rumored threat of school violence were immune from a family's lawsuit alleging a constitutional violation.
The justices issued an unsigned opinion withou
The School Law Blog - January 17, 2012
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to take up the issue of prayers at school board meetings.
The justices declined to hear the appeal of a school board in Delaware, which had its practice of reciting prayers before its public board meetings struck down by the U.S. Court of Appeals
The School Law Blog - January 17, 2012
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to take up major appeals involving student free speech rights on the Internet.
One appeal encompassed two cases decided in June 2011 by the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, in Philadelphia.
The appeal in Blue Mountain S
The School Law Blog - January 12, 2012
A federal judge this week ordered the immediate removal of a large prayer mural addressed to "Our Heavenly Father" in the auditorium of
The School Law Blog - January 11, 2012
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled unanimously that the Constitution's religion clauses bar lawsuits against churches by their ministers, and it held that a Lutheran school teacher could not sue her church employer for discrimination because she was effectively a minister.
"The mem
The School Law Blog - January 10, 2012
The U.S. Supreme Court appeared inclined on Tuesday to rule against public-employee unions by requiring that they provide nonmembers with additional opportunities to object to special assessments or dues increases to fund political goals.
But members of the court also are weighing whether
The School Law Blog - January 09, 2012
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear appeals in cases involving special education and Title IX.
In one case, the justices declined to hear the appeal of a school district that was ordered to provide compensatory tutoring because it failed to identify a student's disability.
The School Law Blog - January 06, 2012
A South Carolina radio talk show host has won a round in an ongoing battle with the state school administrators' group over a Freedom of Information Act request he filed. But the host appears to be losing the war.
A federal appeals court this week ruled against the South Carolina Associat
The School Law Blog - January 05, 2012
Robert L. Carter, who as a civil rights lawyer argued the Brown v. Board of Education case both at the trial court in Topeka, Kan., and in the U.S. Supreme Court, died this week in New York City. He was 94.
Carter, who was a retired federal district judge in Manhattan, d
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