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By Riley Brennan | July 19, 2024
"The Americans with Disabilities Act was passed to address profound discrimination against individuals with disabilities and to allow people with disabilities to use their potential, their knowledge, their talents to make the world better for everyone," said plaintiff's counsel, Mary Vargas, a partner at Stein & Vargas, in Washington, D.C. "This decision clears the way for state professional licensing entities to discriminate and in so doing deprives all of us of the gifts that people with disabilities have to offer."
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By Colleen Murphy | July 18, 2024
"The Sixth Circuit has telegraphed that the expansion of Bostock v. Clayton County's definition of sex discrimination into other areas, including Title IX, is likely dead on arrival or at least in for a substantial uphill battle," Patricia Hamill, a member and co-chair of the Title IX and campus discipline practice at Clark Hill, said.
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By Jimmy Hoover | July 17, 2024
Texas, Alaska and South Carolina seek an emergency order blocking the president's plan to reduce the percentage of discretionary income borrowers must spend on student debt repayment.
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By Jim Saunders | News Service of Florida | July 17, 2024
As it tries to fend off a constitutional challenge to removing and restricting school library books, the Escambia County School Board on Tuesday argued that it should be able to take a deposition of a 7-year-old student who is part of the lawsuit.
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By Colleen Murphy | July 12, 2024
"The fact that the Chevron challenge was pending during the briefing cycle, in effect, robbed the Department of Education of the ability to rely on Chevron in its briefs, which I think was important and made the department's case weaker than it otherwise would have been," Brooklyn College history and legal affairs professor KC Johnson said.
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By Charles Toutant | July 12, 2024
"Based on the statements of witnesses and documents provided, we have found no evidence to corroborate the Nyres' allegations that Mr. Marino sexually harassed or otherwise behaved inappropriately with Mrs. Nyre," the investigative report states.
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By Charles Toutant | July 11, 2024
Although the Supreme Court order left Supsie in the clear, Rubin said the DRB decision "sent a lot of us kind of into a tailspin, scratching our heads about, what are the ground rules here? Because the disciplinary board's position seemed to just run counter to what all of us had been assuming."
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By Sulaiman Abdur-Rahman | July 11, 2024
Liz Magill resigned as the University of Pennsylvania's president last December after providing controversial testimony before the U.S. House Committee on Education. Magill suggested "context" would determine whether calling for the "genocide of the Jewish people" violates Penn's code of conduct.
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By Riley Brennan | July 10, 2024
"A public employee's right to speak about matters of public concern must not be allowed to halt the operations of, say, a public school. On the other hand, the degree of disruption required will vary depending on the speech at issue," wrote U.S. District Judge John M. Gallagher for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
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By Marianna Wharry | July 10, 2024
Jonathan Youngwood, a partner and global co-chair of Simpson Thacher's Litigation Department, which took on the case pro bono, told Law.com that the plaintiffs have asked U.S. District Court Judge John W. deGravelles to consider their preliminary injunction on an expedited basis.
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