Legal News

"ACLU wins Bible lawsuit; Judge: Distribution during school hours unconstitutional."
"ACLU wins Bible lawsuit; Judge: Distribution during school hours unconstitutional." The Advocate of Baton Rouge, Louisiana today contains an article that begins, "The Tangipahoa Parish School Board violated the First Amendment by allowing Gideons International to pass out pocket Bibles to Loranger fifth-graders during school hours in May, a federal judge ruled Tuesday...

Federal Judge Orders Halt To Bible Distribution At Louisiana Public School
Earlier in the week, a federal judge in Louisiana ordered a public school board there to halt a practice of allowing Bible distribution at an elementary school. Last year after Principal Andre Pellerin of Loranger Middle School in Tangipahoa Parish allowed an evangelical group, Gideons International, to distribute the Bibles to fifth-graders outside of Pellerin’s office, parents complained about the practice...

Court Says Gideon Bible Distribution To 5th Graders Violated Establishment Clause
In Roe v. Tangipahoa Parish School Board, (ED LA, April 22, 2008), a Louisiana federal district court held that the distribution of Gideon Bibles to 5th grade students at a Louisiana public school violated the Establishment Clause...

Consent Judgment Entered In Louisiana Gideon Bible Case
A Consent Judgment (full text) has been entered by a Louisiana federal district court in Roe v. Tangipahoa Parish School Board, (ED LA, May 28, 2008). The decree concluded that distribution of Gideon Bibles at Loranger Middle School violated the Establishment Clause...

Judge Rules Against Bible Distribution in Tangipahoa School
The Tangipahoa (LA) school district has received yet another judicial defeat in an Establishment Clause challenge. District Court judge Carl Barbier ruled in favor of the ACLU that the practice of distributing Gideon Bibles to 5th grade students is coercive...

Missouri School District's Bible Distribution Ruled Unconstitutional
Missouri's South Iron School District has been embroiled in a series of legal battles since 2005 over their longstanding practice of allowing Gideon's to distribute Bibles to fifth-graders in their classroom during the school day...

Discouraging Union Organizers
Strict work place rules

Privacy Protection Act 42 USC 21A
Federal Newsroom Law

Federal Adoption Tax Credit
Financial Incentive for Adoptive Parents

Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century
TEA-21 - Plus Law 105-178

VA Sets New Benefit Rules for Agent Orange-Related Ilnesses
Agent Orange-Related Ilnesses VA Sets New Benefit Rules

New York, NY and the NYPD
alleging false arrest for violating an unconstitutional anti-loitering law.

PETCO
Animal Food Distribution Unsanitary, Food Seized

School Racism
School District pays $250,000 in racial harassment settlement.

Student Harassment
Wichita School District pays $45,000 settlement for high school students' harassment lawsuit.

School House Abuse
Selwyn House School agrees to $5 million teacher molestation settlement.