The state high court rules unanimously that a warrantless search of an unattended bag at school does not violate the Fourth Amendment. View full post on The School Law Blog – Education Week #pso #htcs #b4inc Read More
Supreme Court Declines to Take Up Appeal on Police Arrest for School Disruption
The justices turned down a case about a student who had disrupted class with “fake burps” that had drawn a dissent in a lower court by now-Justice Neil M. Gorsuch. View full post on The School Law Blog – Education Week #pso #htcs #b4inc Read More
High School Students, in Moot Competition, Argue a Supreme Court Case
Finalists in the National Virtual Supreme Court Competition make their live arguments in an important church-state case that is pending before the real justices. View full post on The School Law Blog – Education Week #pso #htcs #b4inc Read More
Federal Appeals Court Upholds Block of Trump’s Revised Travel Ban
The president’s executive order “drips with religious intolerance,” the full 4th Circuit court in Richmond says in a challenge being watched by some education groups. View full post on The School Law Blog – Education Week #pso #htcs #b4inc Read More
7th Circuit Appeals Court Rules for Transgender Student on Restroom Use
The court rules that barring the transgender student from using the boys’ restroom violates Title IX and the equal-protection clause of the U.S. Constitution. View full post on The School Law Blog – Education Week #pso #htcs #b4inc Read More
Supreme Court Backs Church Hospitals, Schools in Case on Pension Rules
The justices rule 8-0 that a pension plan maintained by a church affiliate such as a hospital or school is exempt from ERISA. View full post on The School Law Blog – Education Week #pso #htcs #b4inc Read More
Illinois State Worker Asks Supreme Court to Overrule Key Case on Union Fees
The justices could return as soon as next fall to the issue of whether public-employee unions may continue to charge service fees to nonmembers. View full post on The School Law Blog – Education Week #pso #htcs #b4inc Read More
Appeals Court Revives Part of Suit Over Alleged School District Religious Practices
The court held that one parent had standing to press a challenge to alleged religious fundraising practices at an elementary school in Douglas County, Colo. View full post on The School Law Blog – Education Week #pso #htcs #b4inc Read More
Supreme Court Issues Narrow Ruling in Case With Voucher Implications
The state of Missouri violated religious protections in the U.S. Constitution when it denied a church a grant to use shredded scrap tire material to improve its preschool playground, the court ruled 7-2. View full post on The School Law Blog – Education Week #pso #htcs #b4inc Read More
Roundup: High Court Acts on Range of Cases of Interest to Educators
On a busy final day of their term, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court take action on President Trump’s travel ban and three cases involving free speech. View full post on The School Law Blog – Education Week #pso #htcs #b4inc Read More