On June 30, 2025, Governor Pritzker signed into law Public Act 104-0020 which amends Article 24A of the Illinois School Code and upends a major component of the Performance Evaluation Reform Act (“PERA”) that governs teacher and…
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/ Education Law, Labor & Employment Law
In Trump v. Casa, the Supreme Court addressed three emergency applications challenging the use of universal injunctions that bar enforcement of federal action across the country. The case concerned the entry of a temporary…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which governs federal districts in the West/Northwest, recently held that a California school board member violated the First Amendment when blocking users’ ability to access her…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Constitutional Law, Education Law
As we previously reported in our Supreme Court preview alert, this term the Supreme Court heard a lawsuit regarding what standard of liability applies when a student with a disability sues a school under the Americans with…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Education Law
On June 5, 2025, the Supreme Court held that a plaintiff who is a member of a majority group does not need to meet a more stringent burden of proof in order to prove unlawful employment discrimination under Title VII of the…
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/ Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
As the academic year is now wrapping up, we hope that the final weeks of school have been relatively stress free, and that our clients are now looking forward to some slower summer days. Here at Franczek, we have continued to…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Education Law, Elections & Politics, Labor & Employment Law
This week, we are catching up on developments from the Department of Labor for determining whether someone is an independent contractor or employee, a nomination to restore a quorum at the EEOC, continued cuts to K-12 education…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Education Law, Labor & Employment Law
Last week marked President Trump’s 100th day in office for his second term. As we have reported over the course of the past few months, the first 100 days of the second Trump administration have been active, with many new…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Education Law, Government Contracting, Labor & Employment Law
The Trump Administration has signaled it intends to reconsider the previously enjoined 2024 rule that would have increased the minimum salary threshold required for an employee to be exempt from overtime under the Executive,…
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/ Administrative Law, Labor & Employment Law
On Wednesday, April 23, 2025, President Trump issued several Executive Orders targeting various elements of his policy agenda. Below, we discuss orders that aim to eliminate the use of disparate-impact liability under Title VI,…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Education Law, Labor & Employment Law, Science, Computers, & Technology
We took the week off from our Week in Review alert last week as it was a (relatively) slow week. However, as it tends to happen after a slow week, developments picked back up this week…
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/ Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Labor & Employment Law
We saw a flurry of activity this week from the Supreme Court, with rulings that employers and educational institutions should be aware of. Specifically, the Supreme Court ruled in the Trump Administrations’ favor on several of…
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/ Administrative Law, Education Law, Government Contracting, Labor & Employment Law
It was another big week for the Department of Education, with President Trump signing an Executive Order on Thursday instructing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to take actions to “close” the Department. President Trump’s…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Labor & Employment Law
Headlines this week largely focused on the Department of Education, and rightfully so. As announced on Tuesday, President Trump’s administration terminated over 1,300 Department of Education employees this week – nearly 50% of…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Education Law, Government Contracting, Labor & Employment Law
We reported last week that the pace of executive orders coming from the new presidential administration had begun to slow. While, overall, the rate does still appear to be slowing, this week has been a notable one…
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/ Civil Rights, Education Law, Labor & Employment Law