LJC In The News
Liberty Justice Center Appeals Case Challenging California AG Rob Bonta’s Alleged Bias, Abuse of Power
(Tampa Free Press)—The Liberty Justice Center, alongside the law office of Nicole C. Pearson, FACTS LAW TRUTH JUSTICE, filed an opening brief on February 19 with the California Court of Appeals, seeking to overturn a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit against California Attorney General Rob Bonta. The lawsuit alleges...
Court Battle Ends with California School District Keeping Its Revised Parental Notification Policy
(The Epoch Times)—Neither California officials nor the Chino Valley Unified School District have appealed a court ruling over the district’s revised parental notification policy that would inform parents if their child requests changes to his or her school records, according to the school board president and the state attorney general....
Ex-UIC Prof Files Lawsuit Saying He Was Fired for Opposing Racial Hiring Preferences
(Campus Reform)—The Liberty Justice Center recently filed a lawsuit against the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), alleging that a professor was fired because he criticized the school’s hiring practices, which the professor believes are racially discriminatory. The federal lawsuit, which was filed on Feb. 10 in the Eastern Division of...
California School District Defeats State, Maintaining Parental Notification Policy
(The Center Square)—A California school district’s policy of requiring parental notification whenever students seek to change official or unofficial student records was upheld in court and not appealed by the state, suggesting a partial victory for both the state and school district on the matter of paternal notification for student-initiated...
Liberty Justice Center Secures Victory for Parents’ Rights in California School Policy Battle
(Tampa Free Press)—In a win for parental rights, the Liberty Justice Center announced today that the State of California has declined to appeal a court decision upholding the Chino Valley Unified School District’s authority to notify parents when their children request changes to their official or unofficial school records. The...
Liberty Justice Center Declares Victory for Parents’ Rights in California
(Contra Costa News)—The Liberty Justice Center has declared a victory for parents’ rights after the State of California failed to appeal a court decision upholding the Chino Valley Unified School District’s authority to notify parents when their children request changes to their official or unofficial records. The legal battle over...
Interview: Professor Says He Was Fired for Criticizing Racial Hiring Quotas
(Newsmax)—In an interview with Newsmax, Professor Stephen Kleinschmit and Senior Counsel Reilly Stephens discuss the Liberty Justice Center’s lawsuit against the University of Illinois Chicago—which fired Professor Kleinschmit for speaking out against its race-based hiring and retention practices. Learn more about the case here. The Liberty Justice Center never charges...
Opinion: As Unions Fight Reform, Trump Should Assert Executive Power
(The Washington Times)—Americans are right to be concerned about abuses of executive power. After all, the Biden administration tried to use executive power to do things the Constitution allows only Congress (if anyone) to do, such as forgive student loan debt, impose vaccine and mask mandates, force environmental, social and...
Lawsuits: CA Law Banning Certain Workplace Meetings Unconstitutional, Tramples Free Speech Rights
(Northern California Record)—Saying the law unconstitutionally tramples the free speech rights of business owners and others, California business advocates, trade groups and others have taken to the courts to challenge a new California state law, which bans employers from discussing “religious or political matters” with their workers. The California Chamber...
Letter to the Editor: Mark Janus Would Like a Word on Precedent
(The Wall Street Journal)—U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor recently said she wishes her court “went a little more slowly in undoing precedent” (“Sonia Sotomayor’s Elegy for Precedent,” Review & Outlook, Feb. 10). That’s interesting to me because my Supreme Court case, Janus v. AFSCME, decided in 2018, overturned Abood...
Opinion: Newsom to Business Owners: Shut Up!
(The Orange County Register)—George F. Will once said that football combines the two worst features of American life – violence and meetings. Americans are often divided on matters of violence, but we’re nearly united in our hatred of meetings. So you might have expected that my colleagues would have been...
California Sued over Ban on Political or Religious Meetings at Work
Lawsuit Challenges Alleged Race-Based Hiring Practices at University of Illinois
(The Lion)—A new lawsuit is challenging the University of Illinois over alleged racial discrimination in its hiring practices as national pushback against diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs intensifies. Professor Stephen Kleinschmit, represented by the Liberty Justice Center, alleges he was fired from the University of Illinois Chicago in August...
Legal Groups Sue California over Employer Censorship Law
(Tampa Free Press)—The Liberty Justice Center (LJC) and California Justice Center (CJC) have filed a federal lawsuit challenging a California law that restricts employers from discussing political or religious matters during mandatory employee meetings. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of the California Policy Center (CPC), argues that Senate Bill 399...
Illinois University Sued after Professor Alleges He Was Fired for Objecting to Race-Based Hiring Policies
(Fox News)—The University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) is facing a lawsuit over its racial hiring quotas after a former professor claimed he was illegally “retaliated” against for objecting to its allegedly discriminatory practices. Professor Stephen Kleinschmit was a clinical associate professor at UIC’s Department of Public Policy, Management and Analytics...