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The United States Supreme Court is the highest court of the United States and is charged with interpreting federal law, including the United States Constitution. The Court's docket is largely discretionary with only a limited number of cases granted review each term. The Court is comprised of one chief justice and eight associate justices, who are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate to hold lifetime positions. less -

CLIENT ALERT: Biden Administration Releases Long-Awaited Title IX Regulations

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP on 4/22/2024

On April 19, 2024, the Biden Administration released its long-awaited overhaul of the Title IX regulations governing investigations of alleged sexual misconduct and sex discrimination in federally-funded education programs....more

Workplace Law Forecast 2024 - Your workplace law recap for 2023 and predictions for 2024 to help you prepare for the coming year.

Fisher Phillips on 12/4/2023

When I reflect on the relationship that our firm has with our clients, I’m most proud of the fact that you can always count on us. That often means defending complex litigation, steering you through regulatory threats,...more

Navigating the Intersection of Religion and Public Schools

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP on 9/25/2023

Public school districts across the country face an October 1 deadline to certify they do not prevent constitutionally protected prayer — or else they could lose federal funding. The certification is an annual exercise,...more

6 Steps for Private and Independent Schools in the Wake of the SCOTUS Affirmative Action Ruling

Fisher Phillips on 9/20/2023

Seeing the barrage of lawsuits following the United States Supreme Court’s recent decision regarding the use of race in admissions in higher education has left many in K-12 independent and private schools scratching their...more

SCOTUS: Public School Children with Disabilities Can Get Compensatory Damages

Miller Canfield on 3/23/2023

Can public school children with disabilities sue their schools for violations of the federal antidiscrimination statutes and collect compensatory damages before exhausting their administrative remedies under the Individuals...more

Supreme Court: Students With Disabilities May Be Able to Take Schools Directly to Court

Fox Rothschild LLP on 3/23/2023

The U.S. Supreme Court has issued a decision in the case of Perez v. Sturgis Public Schools that would appear on first reading to expand the types of cases in which parents of students with disabilities can skip the...more

U.S. Supreme Court Eliminates Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies Requirement for ADA Damage Suits Against School Districts

Foster Garvey PC on 3/22/2023

Summary of the ruling (& its underlying alphabet soup): The federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (“IDEA”) requires school districts to provide their disabled students a Free Appropriate Public Education...more

School District’s Discipline of Students for Off-Campus Speech Affirmed by Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

Franczek P.C. on 1/18/2023

A recent Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision held that school officials did not violate students’ First Amendment rights when disciplining them for off-campus social media posts that amounted to severe harassment...more

High School Football Coach’s Mid-Field, Post-Game Prayer Ruled Protected Speech

Tucker Arensberg, P.C. on 9/26/2022

Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, 597 U.S. __ (2022) (The United States Supreme Court concludes that a coach praying at mid-field following a high school football game was engaged in private religious expression...more

SCOTUS Term Includes Back-to-School Guidance on Balancing Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses

Best Best & Krieger LLP on 9/8/2022

Employers Should Reevaluate Policies on Religious Expression at Work in Light of Kennedy v. Bremerton School District and Carson v. Makin - With the commencement of school, public youth programs and 2022-23 budget cycles,...more

Supreme Court Issues Opinion on Religious Expression for Public Employees

Polsinelli on 7/8/2022

The Supreme Court addressed the intersection of the First Amendment’s Establishment and Free Speech clauses as they relate to a public employee’s personal religious expression when done in the public eye. In a 6-to-3...more

Supreme Court Alters First Amendment Test In Decision Allowing High School Coach to Pray After Games

Ballard Spahr LLP on 7/1/2022

Joseph Kennedy coached football at Bremerton High School, a public school in Washington State. After football games, Kennedy led prayers at the 50-yard line among players, coaches, fans, and, sometimes, politicians. The...more

Supreme Court rules in favor of football coach who prayed on field after games

Franczek P.C. on 6/29/2022

On Monday June 27, the Supreme Court issued their ruling in the case Kennedy v. Bremerton School District. (We previously reported on this case.) In a 6-3 decision penned by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the conservative majority...more

SCOTUS Sides with Public School Football Coach Who was Disciplined for Praying After Games

Fisher Phillips on 6/28/2022

The SCOTUS recently ruled in favor of a public high school football coach who lost his job after praying in front of students at the 50-yard line following the school’s football games. The Court held that the coach did not...more

Supreme Court Decides Kennedy v. Bremerton School District

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 6/28/2022

On June 27, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, No. 21-418, holding that a football coach’s quiet prayers of thanks after three football games were protected under the Free Exercise and...more

Supreme Court to decide case of football coach placed on leave for post-game prayers

Franczek P.C. on 6/9/2022

On April 25, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, which we previously reported on. As you may recall, the case involves a high school football coach, Joseph Kennedy, who was...more

Supreme Court Decision about Community College Raises Issues for Public Body Boards

Miller Nash LLP on 4/13/2022

Escalated tension, dissention, disagreement have been the new normal for school district and community college boards throughout the country. Censures and reprimands, once a little used arrow in the quiver of boards, have...more

Decision on Race-Based Admissions in K-12 May Serve as National Guide

McGuireWoods LLP on 3/7/2022

On Jan. 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear two cases on the use of race in undergraduate admissions. Just one month later, federal district courts were already beginning to hear challenges to similar programs...more

Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Case of Former Football Coach Who Prayed on the Field after School District Told Him No

Franczek P.C. on 2/8/2022

In 2019, we reported on the case of Kennedy v. Bremerton School District involving a football coach at Bremerton High School in Washington state who was placed on administrative leave by his public school district for praying...more

New executive order aligns Title IX with Bostock decision

Bricker Graydon LLP on 1/22/2021

After months of speculation as to how a new administration may enforce Title IX, newly inaugurated President Biden wasted no time in addressing the matter. On his first day in office, he issued seventeen executive orders,...more

SCOTUS Denies Petition to Review 7th Circuit Decision Affecting Cook County Property Tax Assessment Litigation

Franczek P.C. on 11/19/2020

As reported in Education Week, the U.S. Supreme Court has denied a petition to hear an appeal brought by Cook County Treasurer’s office, the Assessor’s office and others challenging a 7th Circuit decision allowing Illinois...more

U.S. Supreme Court Declines Review Of Ferguson-Florissant School District v. Missouri Conference Of NAACP

Husch Blackwell LLP on 2/4/2019

On January 7, 2019, the Supreme Court of the United States denied certiorari in Ferguson-Florissant School District v. Missouri Conference of NAACP. This case involves the Ferguson-Florissant School District (“FFSD”), a St....more

Supreme Court Justices Criticize School’s Discipline of Football Coach for Prayer During Game

Franczek P.C. on 1/28/2019

The Supreme Court recently declined to hear a case involving a public school district that fired its football coach for kneeling and praying on the football field after games. ...more

California Court Rules District Cannot Prohibit Students From Kneeling During The National Anthem At School Sporting Events

Pullman & Comley - School Law on 4/20/2018

In what appears to be the first decision on this issue in the country, a federal court in California granted a high school athlete’s request for an injunction overturning his high school’s prohibition against athletes...more

Endrew F. In The Second Circuit – How Is The Court Applying The New Standard

Pullman & Comley - School Law on 10/27/2017

Following the United States Supreme Court’s decision of earlier this year in Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District, appellate courts, including the United States Supreme Court, have typically remanded special education...more

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