LJC In The News
Groups Sue Minnesota University System, Group over ‘Coerced’ Speech
(The Center Square)—Two groups sued a group called Students United, the St. Cloud State University and SCSU’s responsible administrators for allegedly violating college students’ First Amendment rights. On Thursday, the Liberty Justice Center and the Upper Midwest Law Center filed Lackie v. Students United in the U.S. District Court for...
Parents Sue School Board After School Suspends Student For Saying ‘Illegal Aliens’
(The Daily Caller)—The Liberty Justice Center (LJC) filed a lawsuit against the Davidson County Board of Education Tuesday on behalf of 16-year-old Christian McGhee, who was suspended after using the term “illegal aliens” in class. A press statement released by the LJC calls out the North Carolina school board for...
School Suspends Student for Saying “Illegal Alien”
(Todd Starnes Show)—On an interview on the Todd Starnes Show, the Liberty Justice Center’s Educational Freedom Attorney Dean McGee discusses a new lawsuit against a North Carolina school that suspended a student for saying “illegal alien” in class. The Liberty Justice Center is suing the Davidson County Board of Education...
Student Suspended for Using ‘Illegal Alien’ in Class Sues School District
(OutKick)—Merriam-Webster still has no problem with defining the word “aliens,” and one maligned North Carolina teen is trusting a judge won’t either. Lawyers for Christian McGhee on Tuesday sued the Davidson County School District after the boy was suspended and subjected to racism accusations for asking a question in English...
North Carolina School Board Sued After Student Who Said “Aliens” Was Labeled Racist, Suspended
(Tampa Free Press)—The Liberty Justice Center filed a lawsuit against the Davidson County Board of Education on behalf of Christian McGhee, a sixteen-year-old student whose concern regarding the phrase “aliens” in English class resulted in harsh punishment and bogus claims of racism from his own school. The lawsuit follows a...
Teen, Family Sue North Carolina School District
(The Center Square)—North Carolina parents withdrew their teen from school and sued a school district it says unfairly issued a suspension and “injected race” into a question of clarification from an English teacher. The Davidson County School District Board of Education is the defendant sued by Christian McGhee, a 16-year-old...
Family Sues NC School Board, Says Son Was Suspended for Using Term ‘Illegal Aliens’
(The National Desk)—A North Carolina family sued their local school board on Tuesday after their son was allegedly suspended for his use of the word “alien.” Central Davidson High School issued a three-day, out-of-school suspension to the 16-year-old student last month after he asked for clarification on a vocabulary assignment...
Lawsuit Filed Against NC School Board for ‘Illegal Alien’ Suspension Controversy
(The Carolina Journal)—Following national outrage and attention from high-profile voices like Elon Musk, a lawsuit has been filed against the Davidson County Board of Education for violating a student’s rights to free speech, education, and due process. Sophomore Christian McGhee was suspended for using the word ‘illegal alien’ in class...
MS Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Private Schools, Allows Federal Funds for Infrastructure
(Mississippi Clarion Ledger)—Closing a recent case in which public school advocates went up against private schools, the Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled in the favor of private schools, allowing them the use of one-time federal pandemic relief funds. In the 2022 legislative session, Tate Reeves signed two bills approving the...
Iowa Farmland Owner Sues USDA over ‘Swampbuster’ Abuse, Restrictions
(Michigan Farm News)—Jim Conlan, an Iowa farmland owner and attorney by trade, filed a lawsuit April 16 against USDA for its attempt to restrict farming activities on land he owns in Iowa under the “Swampbuster” provisions of the 1985 Food Security Act. Represented at no charge by the Pacific Legal...
Lawsuit Challenges Federal ‘Swampbuster’ Law that Protects Wetlands
(Iowa Capital Dispatch)—An Iowa company is suing the U.S. Department of Agriculture over the federal government’s so-called “swampbuster law” that requires farmers to either leave wetlands untouched or forfeit certain federal benefits. The lawsuit was filed this week by CTM Holdings in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of...
Opinion: Public Defenders Shouldn’t Be Forced to Support a Union’s Anti-Israeli Speech
(National Review)—No one should be forced to pay money to an organization that advocates for points of view that they find deeply offensive. For example, a Jewish person shouldn’t be forced to pay for an organization that advocates ideas that he or she considers antisemitic. That’s the situation that Arnold...
Farmers Challenge ‘Swampbuster’ Law for Locking up Their Land
(E & E News | Politico)—Conservative lawyers are asking a federal court to strike down a wetlands conservation law that they say unconstitutionally blocks farmers from using their property without compensating them for their loss. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of...
Opinion: The Federal Government Is Taking Advantage of Farmers Via One Law, and We’re Suing to End It
(Daily Caller)—When the government takes your land to build a road, highway or create a park, you get paid. That’s because while the government has the power of eminent domain—that is, the power to take private property for public use—the Fifth Amendment requires that it compensate you for any land...
Iowa Farmer Challenging Constitutionality of ‘Swampbuster’ Provision
(Center Square)—An Iowa man is challenging a decades-old provision that designates a portion of his land as “wetlands” by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and prevents its use. The nonprofits Liberty Justice Center and the Pacific Legal Foundation are filing a lawsuit on behalf of Iowa farmer Jim Conlan, owner...