LJC In The News
Incoming Rio Rancho Finance Director Held Same Job During ABQ Planned Parenthood Donation That Sparked Lawsuit
(Rio Rancho Observer)—Rio Rancho’s incoming finance director was in the same role for the city of Albuquerque two years ago, when the city council approved a $250,000 sponsorship with a Planned Parenthood chapter in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s bombshell decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, according to a...
A Major Property Rights Case Idles on Supreme Court Docket
(Reason)—Could a Challenge to Los Angeles’ Eviction Ban End Rent Control in New York? Idling on the Supreme Court’s docket is a challenge to Los Angeles’ COVID-era eviction moratorium that, if heard, could have major implications for legal challenges against tenant protection and rent control laws across the country. In...
CTU Unable To Quickly End Lawsuit For Missing Financial Audits
(Off the Press)—The politically powerful Chicago Teachers Union can’t escape a lawsuit accusing them of violating their members’ rights by refusing to release years’ worth of financial audits, allegedly in breach of their own governing rules. On May 14, a Cook County judge rejected the CTU’s bid to dismiss the...
On Fifth Anniversary of DeVos Rule, DFI Releases Its Model Title IX Law, the ‘RESPECT Title IX Act’
(Defense of Freedom Institute)—On the fifth anniversary of the DeVos Title IX regulations, the Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies (DFI) today released a comprehensive model Title IX law, the Respect Equality in Sports, Privacy, and Education and Campus Transparency Act (RESPECT Title IX Act), that would codify core...
Exclusive: New Title IX Proposal Could End Gender Theory ‘Whiplash’ Forever
(The Federalist)—One of the issues with Title IX, the law that protects the civil rights and equality of men and women at school from K-12 through college, is that it can be manipulated and changed by successive presidential administrations to conduct bizarre social experiments and undermine the law’s original purpose....
Court Allows Lawsuit Against Chicago Teachers Union Over Financial Transparency
(Legal Newsline)—In a recent legal development, Judge David B. Atkins of the Circuit Court of Cook County has ruled in favor of the Liberty Justice Center in the case of Weiss v. Chicago Teachers Union (CTU). The court denied CTU’s motion to dismiss the case, marking a significant step for...
‘An Economic Fallacy’: Rand Paul Doesn’t See the Benefits of Tariffs
(Politico)—Sen. Rand Paul attacked the economic logic of President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff strategy on Sunday — and agreed that the policies raise constitutional concerns. The Kentucky Republican said Trump’s sweeping tariffs on foreign trading partners are based on “an economic fallacy” about trade deficits and objected to the president’s...
Meet the Small-Business Owner Suing Trump Over Tariffs
(The Washington Post)—After a long day promoting her new cookbook, entrepreneur Emily Ley sank into her couch and began writing about the threat that President Donald Trump’s tariffs posed to her nine-person company. Ley sells high-end paper planners, advice books and other office staples online and at major stores such...
Bally’s Drops Racial Preferences for Chicago Casino IPO
(Loop North News)—Bally’s has decided to drop racial limitations from its planned $250 million initial public offering (IPO) for its $1.7 billion Chicago casino project. Following lawsuits by the Liberty Justice Center and the American Alliance for Equal Rights, Bally’s acknowledged that the initial requirements limited investment opportunities mainly to...
CTU Can’t Quickly Pull Plug on Lawsuit Demanding Release of Years of Missing Audited Financials
(Cook County Record)—The politically powerful Chicago Teachers Union can’t escape a lawsuit accusing them of violating their members’ rights by refusing to release years’ worth of financial audits, allegedly in breach of their own governing rules. On May 14, a Cook County judge rejected the CTU’s bid to dismiss the...
Cook County Judge Rejects Chicago Teachers Union’s Attempt to Dismiss Audit Transparency Lawsuit
(Chicago City Wire)—A Cook County judge has ruled that a lawsuit against the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) can proceed, rejecting the union’s attempt to have the case dismissed. The lawsuit, Weiss v. Chicago Teachers Union, was filed in October 2024 by longtime CTU member and CPS social worker Philip Weiss...
Victory for Chicago Educators: Court Rules in Favor of Financial Transparency in Weiss v. Chicago Teachers Union, Permitting Case to Move Forward
(Wirepoints)—The Circuit Court of Cook County has ruled in favor of the Liberty Justice Center in Weiss v. Chicago Teachers Union—denying CTU’s motion to dismiss the case and marking a significant milestone for union members seeking greater financial transparency and accountability from their leadership. The lawsuit, brought by CTU members...
Transparency Lawsuit Against Chicago Teachers Union Clears Hurdle As Judge Denies Dismissal
(Tampa Free Press)—A lawsuit demanding financial transparency from the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) can proceed after a Cook County Circuit Court judge denied the union’s motion to dismiss the case. The ruling, handed down by Judge David B. Atkins in the case of Weiss v. Chicago Teachers Union, marks a...
A Simple Defense of Nationwide Injunctions
(Reason)—The main issue addressed in yesterday’s birthright citizenship oral argument before the Supreme Court was whether federal courts should have the power to issue nationwide injunctions against illegal government policies, as opposed to injunctions limited to the parties to the case, or perhaps to a particular state or local government....
Which Way, CTU? Election Tests Union’s Strategy and Solidarity
(Chicago Tribune)—A group of dissenting educators was challenging Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates and her squad in a union election Friday. The opposition slate argues that the current leadership’s bullish nature doesn’t allow for dissenting voices, lacks financial transparency and has shed union allies. Davis Gates’ opponent for...