On August 16, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court (Court) rejected a request by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to allow enforcement of uncontested parts of the Title IX new Title IX final rule in some states where injunctions are in place. The DOJ asked the Court last month to determine whether…
On July 2, 2024, a federal judge temporarily blocked the Biden administration’s final Title IX rule from going into effect in Alaska, Kansas, Utah, and Wyoming raising o 14 the number of states where the controversial rule is now on hold by judicial order. In light of additional legislative challenges…
On April 25, 2024, seventeen states filed suit the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas requesting a stay and preliminary injunction of the agency’s recently promulgated final rule implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act alleging that its abortion accommodation…
On February 20, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear TJ v. Fairfax County School Board. The case challenged admissions policies at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. In May 2023, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the school board. Plaintiffs in…
A Title IX lawsuit will be heard later this year by the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals, which hears appeals from the nine federal district courts in Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina and from federal administrative agencies. The plaintiffs claim that North Carolina’s Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools…
On January 16, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) declined to consider a case on involving an Indiana school district’s policies banning transgender students from using bathrooms that align with their gender identities. It was hoped that SCOTUS would settle the ongoing controversy over the use of student restrooms by…
On January 8, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court declined hear a challenge to corporal punishment in schools as brought forth in the case of an 11-year-old Louisiana girl with nonverbal autism whose parents alleged that she was slapped on her hands three different times by school staff. Lower courts threw…
On October 24, 2023, forty-one states and the District of Columbia are suing Meta, accusing the parent company of Instagram and Facebook of concealing the adverse effects their platforms have on children and adolescents and deploying harmful contents that target those youth. In one filing in the U.S. District Court…
As the U.S. Supreme Court term began on October 2, 2023, there were no cases on the docket that directly involve pupil services. However, cases that have yet to reach the Court could have a profound impact on transgender issues in K-12 education. In fact conflicting ruling from the 7th…
A federal judge has dismissed a class-action lawsuit against Virginia’s Fairfax County Public Schools and the Virginia Department of Education that claimed the district and state violated civil rights protections for students with disabilities and their families. Specifically, the lawsuit said hearing officers presiding over disputes between districts and parents…
