Litigation News

In rulings related to transgender issues, sex, and faith, parents and others have won a string of court cases for parents' rights and the First Amendment.

The latest development in the ongoing controversy surrounding Williamson County Schools’ library materials comes with a significant legal decision.

A lawsuit filed against the Evanston/Skokie School District 65 in Evanston alleges the school separated students and teachers by race .

A new lawsuit alleges that a Colorado school district fired a dean of students for pushing back against critical race theory and expressing patriotism as an American.

Families object to the district’s no-opt-out policy on religious grounds.

The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty has announced it is challenging a scholarship program in the Beloit, Wisconsin, school district for being racist and discriminatory.

We recently helped secure a great victory for parental rights and the people of Alaska. Back in May, First Liberty teamed up with Elbert Lin, a long-time First Liberty network attorney, as well as with Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor's team. Together, we defended the state's homeschool allotment program from a facial challenge to strike down a program serving more than 22,000 children in Alaska.

A federal judge in Kansas has blocked a federal rule expanding anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ+ students from being enforced in four states and a patchwork of places elsewhere across the nation.

Today, by 5-to-4, with John Roberts shockingly joining the four conservatives on that court, the US Supreme Court ruled that blocking state aid to religious schools, if such aid was available to private schools, in general, was unconstitutional.

The parents of an elementary school student have sued Bellingham Public Schools for allegedly failing to protect their son from repeated sexual assaults perpetrated by another male student while they were on a school bus, and for failing to report the allegations to law enforcement or state child welfare officials.

A charter school group is suing the Los Angeles school district for its alleged anti-charter animus, accusing the board of passing illegal policies that defy voters’ wishes.

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced a lawsuit Tuesday against the Biden administration’s revision of existing Title IX law through a Department of Education (DOE) rule change that includes gender identity in the definition of sex discrimination.

A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that a Catholic school has the right to only hire staff who agree with its religious principles, rejecting a lawsuit from a substitute teacher who announced plans to enter into a same-sex marriage.

Public school board members should be familiar with landmark Supreme Court decisions that could shape how they resolve conflicts and set school district policies.

A Virginia dad is being sued by his local school board after he complained about his special needs son not receiving legally mandated services.

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