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New Jersey Law Journal

In Opposition to 'Book Bans'

We are undergoing one of our periodic waves of what is commonly referred to as book banning. The term is not strictly accurate.
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New Jersey Law Journal

Former Parsippany Assistant Principal Files Racial Discrimination Complaint Over Dismissal

This complaint was first surfaced by Law.com Radar.
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

DCR Issues Finding of Discrimination for Community College Employee Fired After Contracting COVID-19

A disability discrimination complaint, filed by a Mercer County Community College employee fired after he contracted COVID-19 and was hospitalized on a ventilator, has been resolved, according to Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin.
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National Law Journal

A Conversation With NLJ Award Lifetime Achievement Winner Alan Morrison

Public interest lawyer Alan Morrison, who has dedicated his career to helping low-income, marginalized, or vulnerable populations, is honored with this NLJ Lifetime Achievement Award.
8 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

New Bullying Case Offers Hope for First Amendment Rights in Schools

Anyone who follows school law knows that these types of HIB charges are commonplace—and difficult to challenge. In seeking to combat bullying, the HIB statute (N.J.S.A. 18A:37-13) is exceedingly broad, focusing not on traditional categories of protected traits (race, gender, nationality, etc.) but on any "distinguishing characteristic," of any kind.
5 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Should a School Be Required To Notify Parents of a Student's Gender Identity?

Who is in a better position to determine whether or not a student's parents will accept and support the student's new gender identity, the student or "the administration"?
8 minute read

Law.com

Another Court Rules Procedurally Deficient Title IX Hearings Strip Accusers of Qualified Immunity

Another court has ruled that a school's Title IX proceedings were deficient and therefore could not be classified as "quasi-judicial" for the purpose…
10 minute read

Law.com

College Athletics Programs Face Likely 'Collision' Between NIL Deals and Title IX

"...[T]here is a coming collision because the people who are implementing NIL are talking about how this is the wild, wild west, and that they can do anything thing that they want. And no they can't. If they violate Title IX, there is a law there," said Arthur H. Bryant, a partner at Bailey Glasser in California.
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Law.com

Father's First Amendment Rights Not Violated When Providing Financial Information on Daughter's FAFSA Account, Alaska High Court Concludes

"The superior court concluded that David was contractually obliged to participate in his daughters' financial aid process, and as we explained above David failed to show that the superior court erred in reaching that conclusion," the panel said. "Even if David's participation in the financial aid process were speech or association, the First Amendment would not excuse David from speech or association that he contracted to make."
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

In 5-Year Battle Over Segregated Schools, Litigants Contemplate: What's Next?

"Our view is we have an ideal moment in time right now to pause the litigation," said Paul Josephson of Duane Morris, representing the charter school defendants.
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