The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 split, ruled that a nurse who sued her employer for unpaid wages could not seek to press her case on behalf of similarly treated but yet-to-be-identified workers once the care facility where she worked offered to settle her claim.
Continue reading...AL.com reports that an African-American teacher has filed suit against Shelby County School District, alleging he has been passed over for several promotions because of his race and religion.
Continue reading...As reported in the Quad City Times, Cedar County District Judge Mark Smith has ordered members of the Durant School Board to serve 30 days in the Cedar County Jail for violating a court order in how the board was to restore Monica Rouse to her job as Durant High School principal.
Continue reading...According to a WSBT TV report in the South Bend Tribune, Kimberly Hester, a teacher’s aide at Frank Squires Elementary in Cassopolis, Michigan, is in a legal battle with Lewis Cass Intermediate School District (LCISD) for suspending her from her position after refusing to give the district access to her Facebook page. Hester says she became a [...]
Continue reading...Six former and current teachers at Kemp Mill Elementary School are suing Montgomery County Public schools over allegations of bullying by the school’s principal, says the Washington Post. The suit claims Principal Floyd Starnes bullied and harassed teachers who sought to improve classroom conditions.
Continue reading...According to the Denver Post, teachers and parents are questioning whether African-Americans were targeted as Denver Public Schools (DPS) sought to trim teachers and staff in its effort to turn around failing schools.
Continue reading...The California Supreme Court has ruled that a student who was the victim of sexual abuse by a high school guidance counselor has stated a valid cause of action against a school district for vicarious liability based on the district’s supervisory and administrative employees’ negligent hiring, supervising, and retention of the guidance counselor.
Continue reading...Mark Walsh reports in Education Week’s School Law Blog that the Supreme Court has found in favor of a Lutheran church in a retaliation suit brought by one of its teachers. In the unanimous ruling authored by Chief Justice Roberts, the Court determined that both the Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses of the First Amendment “bar the government from interfering with the decision of a religious group to fire one if its ministers.”
Continue reading...According to the Mercury News, Sequoia Union High School District (SUHSD) has settled a lawsuit filed by a diabetic teacher with an anxiety disorder alleging that not only did school officials fail to accommodate his disabilities, they made his job more difficult to perform. SUHSD’s attorney noted that school officials worked to accommodate some requests, but other were not reasonable.
Continue reading...The Mississippi Court of Appeals, in a 5-4 en banc decision, has ruled that a school board’s decision to terminate a teacher after she refused a school district official’s request to submit to a drug test pursuant to the district’s drug and alcohol policy was not arbitrary or capricious.
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