Religion & Law

Court Issues TRO So Boy Can Wear Rosary To School
As it had previously threatened to do (see prior posting), yesterday the American Center for Law & Justice filed suit in a New York federal district court on behalf of a 13-year old middle school student in Schenectady, New York who was suspended for wearing a rosary outside his shirt to school...

FREE SPEECH: Student Wins Nobama Case. Arrested and suspended for one day for wearing a Nobama
FREE SPEECH: Student Wins “Nobama” Case. “Arrested and suspended for one day for wearing a ‘Nobama’ shirt outside a pre-election speech by Michelle Obama in his high school gym, a Colorado high school student has won a $4,000 settlement with his school district and the sheriff?s office...

Student Suspended for Wearing Political Tee-Shirt in Colorado
Even at eleven years old, Daxx Dalton shares his father’s intense conservative views and displayed those views by wearing a tee-shirt to school that read “Obama is a terrorist’s best friend...

High School Student Speech and "Be Happy, Not Gay" T-Shirt:
The Seventh Circuit, in Nuxoll v. Indian Prairie School Dist. #204, just held that a student did have the right to wear such a T-shirt. (The student was wearing it...

Suit Threatened Over Student Who Is Disciplined For Wearing Rosary Beads
The American Center for Law & Justice (press release) is threatening to file a lawsuit against Schenectady, New York school officials on behalf of a middle school student who was sent home for wearing a Rosary outside of his shirt...

NY school sued after teen suspended over rosary
A federal judge says a New York school must reinstate a 13-year-old boy who was suspended for wearing rosary beads.Judge Lawrence Kahn ordered the Schenectady (skeh-NEHK'-ta-dee) seventh-grader reinstated pending a June 11 hearing into whether the suspension violated the boy's civil rights...

F-1 Visas
Visas for Foreign Students

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

Suspended and Fired
Town of Alton agrees to pay former police chief $10,000 wrongful termination settlement.

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

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

Student Loan Xpress Settles Class Action with Students
Student Loan Xpress Settles Class Action with Students

Princeton Review
Sarasota Student Data Breach Prompts Class Action