Law & Courts
Education news, analysis, and opinion about court cases, lawsuits, and regulations affecting schools.
See also: Supreme Court, Court Cases, First Amendment, Student Rights
Law & Courts Ed. Dept. Workers' Union Sues Over Emails Blaming Democrats for ShutdownThe lawsuit challenges an automatic email from furloughed staff that blames U.S. Senate Democrats for the government shutdown.
Law & Courts New Supreme Court Term Puts Transgender Student Rights in the SpotlightThe justices will weigh state laws that bar transgender girls from female athletics, amid other issues of interest to educators in new term
Law & Courts Appeals Court Says Ed. Dept. Can Fire Civil Rights StaffOffice for civil rights employees had already begun returning to work under a court order
Law & Courts LGBTQ+ Rights, Ed. Dept. Cuts, Ten Commandments: A Summer Legal RoundupCourts weighed in this summer on LGBTQ+ rights, school speech, and religion in classrooms.
Law & Courts With Childhood Vaccination Rates Falling, Debate on Religious Exemptions GrowsThere is growing pressure from parents and the Trump administration for exemptions to be expanded. The U.S. Supreme Court could decide.
Law & Courts Supreme Court Rejects Bid to Block Transgender Boy From Male Restrooms at SchoolA divided Supreme Court declined to pause an injunction blocking a South Carolina law as it applied to a transgender male student.
Law & Courts School's Confederate Name Violates Students' Free Speech, Judge SaysThe district was the first to reverse course and bring back Confederate names for its schools. The litigation is ongoing.
Law & Courts Schools Sue Trump, But It's Getting Harder for Them to Recoup MoneyJudges have recently ruled against districts as they challenge Ed. Dept. funding cuts and threats in court.
Law & Courts School Board Sues Trump Admin. to Defend Transgender Student PolicyThe lawsuit challenges the Ed. Dept.'s finding that the district violated Title IX.
Law & Courts Judge Blocks Texas Law Requiring Ten Commandments in SchoolsA federal district judge ruled that the Texas law requiring Ten Commandments displays is schools likely violates the First Amendment.
Law & Courts Judge Tells Trump Admin. to Restore Some Education Research ProgramsThe federal judge found the termination of contracts for the Comprehensive Centers and Regional Educational Laboratories was illegal.
Law & Courts Appeals Court Backs School in Anti-Abortion Club's Flyer DisputeA federal appeals court upheld an Indiana school district's limitation on a Students for Life club's political messages on school walls.
Law & Courts Trump Can't Require Schools to Certify They Won't Use DEI, Judge SaysA federal judge appointed by Trump struck down several efforts made by the U.S. Department of Education to curb educators’ use of DEI.
Law & Courts Ed. Dept. Hasn't Complied With Order to Restore Civil Rights Staff, Judge SaysThe judge also said a high court ruling allowing layoffs at the Education Department shouldn't affect a separate case on agency cutbacks.
Law & Courts Appeals Court Sides With School in ‘Come and Take It’ Gun Hat DisputeA full federal appeals court declined to reconsider a panel's decision backing administrators who required a student to remove her gun hat.
