Lawyers for a transgender teenager say they will keep pushing his legal dispute with a Virginia school board to the Supreme Court. The American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) announcement comes one day after the Trump administration rolled back protections for transgender students, potentially impacting 17-year-old Gavin Grimm’s upcoming case. “If anything, the confusion caused by this recent …
Lack of clearer allegations about accreditation could be a weak spot in the $5 million putative class action lawsuit filed in Maine by four former nursing students, a New York-based business law and litigation attorney said during a recent interview. “I was disappointed that the complaint did not more clearly spell out the alleged misrepresentation regarding …
Trump Administration May Change Stance On Transgender Bathrooms For Students The topic of transgender bathroom rights has been a hotly contested issue between states and the federal government since North Carolina passed a law last March that would require individuals only to use the bathrooms that matched their sex as assigned at birth. Though the Justice Department sued the state, there …
Some legal trouble may be brewing for the Butler Area School District over the high levels of lead found in the drinking water at Summit Elementary School. A federal lawsuit was filed Tuesday against the district and its superintendent. There is only one plaintiff so far, but the lawyers are intending it as a class action suit.
The city of Detroit is siding with seven Detroit public schoolchildren suing Gov. Rick Snyder and state education officials over their right to access literacy. On Thursday, attorneys for the city filed an amicus brief in a proposed class action lawsuit against Snyder and state education officials that is being touted as an unprecedented attempt to establish that literacy is a U.S. constitutional right. …
The City of Detroit is weighing in on a high-profile literacy lawsuit that accuses state officials of denying Detroit students access to literacy. Eli Savit, an attorney representing the city, filed an amicus brief today in U.S. District Court in Detroit that argues access to literacy is a fundamental right. It asks Judge Stephen J. Murphy III to shoot down the state’s request to dismiss the case. “The city of Detroit (though it does not control Detroit’s schools) is all too familiar with …
The Orange Unified School District has reached a $10 million settlement with the families of five children injured in a 2014 school bus crash in Anahim Hills, a law firm announced Tuesday. Several children were seriously injured when bus driver Gerald Rupple passed out and smashed the coach into a tree while driving 11 children home from El Rancho Charter Middle School. Rupple, now 27, is …
A new lawsuit filed by the Freedom From Religion Foundation claims a longstanding public school program in Mercer County, West Virginia, violates separation of church and state provisions of the federal and state constitutions. Mercer’s “Bible in Schools” program offers weekly instruction in the Bible during the school day to elementary and middle school students. The …
Academy of Art University has agreed to pay $20 million and to build 160 units of affordable housing to settle a lawsuit filed by the city of San Francisco over the institution’s widespread land-use violations. Under the proposed deal, announced Monday, the university will pay the city $20 million in cash …
DeVry University will pay $100 million to settle a lawsuit that alleged its ads misled prospective students, the Federal Trade Commission said Thursday. The money will go back to tens of thousands of students that attended DeVry between 2008 and 2015. Some will be reimbursed with cash and others will receive debt relief.