The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a Michigan statute, which prohibits public schools from collecting union dues from its employees, does not violate the rights of teachers or their unions under the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
Continue reading...The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruled that a New Mexico school district’s decision to ban students from distributing rubber doll fetuses on campus as part of the students’ anti-abortion activities did not violate the students’ First Amendment free speech or free exercise of religion rights, or their Fourteenth Amendment equal protection rights.
Continue reading...A federal district court in Arizona has granted the state’s motion for summary judgment, dismissing the plaintiffs’ claims that a particular statute, which limits school districts’ ability to provide certain race-related curricula, violates their First Amendment speech rights and Fourteenth Amendment due process and equal protection rights.
Continue reading...An Illinois federal district court has ruled that school district officials did not violate a former high school guidance counselor’s First Amendment free speech or his Fourteenth Amendment liberty interest rights when they dismissed him from his employment based on a “self-help” book he published on relationships.
Continue reading...The Kansas City Star reports that the Lee’s Summit School District has settled a suit brought by twin brothers Steven and Sean Wilson, who were suspended for 180 days because of a racist rant that appeared on an Internet blog they created.
Continue reading...A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has unanimously affirmed a federal district court’s decision that a provision in Wisconsin’s Act 10, which restricts the collective bargaining rights of public workers classified as “general employees”, is constitutional.
Continue reading...A federal district court in Texas has denied a student’s motion for a preliminary injunction barring a school district from transferring her from the specialty program she attends back to her base school because she refuses to wear the required ID badge while on campus.
Continue reading...According to the Pennsylvania Record, Samantha Pawlucy, a student at Charles Carroll High School, has filed suit against the Philadelphia School District claiming a violation of her free speech rights when her geometry teacher, Lynette Gaymon, harassed her because she was wearing a Romney-Ryan T-shirt.
Continue reading...The Albany Democrat-Herald reports that Sweet Home School District’s school board is considering a proposed policy meant to tighten controls on after-hours communication between teachers and students that has prompted free speech concerns.
Continue reading...A New York state appellate court has ruled that a school district’s decision to suspend a student for threatening to blow up a school was neither arbitrary and capricious, nor did it violate the student’s free speech rights.
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