LJC In The News
Suit Challenges Mandatory Fees Supporting Students United Agenda: St. Cloud Grad Says Required Students United Funding Violated Her Rights
(Minnesota Lawyer)—The Liberty Justice Center and the Upper Midwest Law Center have filed a lawsuit on behalf of a St. Cloud State University student alleging her First Amendment rights were violated because she was required to pay fees that fund the political speech of an organization called Students United. The...
Liberty Justice Center and Pelican Institute Challenge Biden’s LNG Export Ban
(Offshore Technology)—The Liberty Justice Center and Pelican Institute for Public Policy jointly filed a lawsuit to challenge a ban imposed by US Prsident Biden’s administration on the authorisation of new and pending LNG export applications on Thursday. In a press statement, the Liberty Justice Center said that since 1938, a...
IL Dems Unconstitutionally Changed Election Rules to Block Republican Candidates from Fall Ballot, Lawsuit Says
(Cook County Record)—Saying the law unconstitutionally rewrites the rules of Illinois elections in the middle of the election cycle, a group of prospective Republican General Assembly candidates have become the first to challenge a controversial new “anti-democracy” elections law, rushed through the state legislature by the state’s Democratic supermajority in...
Candidates File Lawsuit Challenging Illinois’ Hastily Changed Election Law
(The Center Square)—Candidates hopeful to run for the Illinois General Assembly filed a lawsuit alleging violation of constitutional voting rights resulting from recent changes in the rules for slating candidates to fill vacancies. Leslie Collazo is a plaintiff in the lawsuit filed Friday in Sangamon County Circuit Court. The defendants...
A Former Student at Central Davidson High and His Parents Are Suing the Davidson County School Over His Three-Day Suspension
(Winston-Salem Journal)—16-year-old former student at Central Davidson High School in Lexington and his parents are suing Davidson County school officials for suspending him for three days in April. School officials took action for what they described as the student making a racially insensitive remark in a classroom, according to the...
Student Sues School District after Suspension for Using Term ‘Illegal Alien’
(The Lion)—A 10th-grade student’s family has filed a lawsuit against a North Carolina school district after it suspended him for using the term “illegal alien” in class. The student, 16-year-old Christian McGhee, had raised his hand in class to ask whether the term “alien” being used by the teacher referred...
Federal Case: Asking about ‘Aliens’ Isn’t Racist
(American Family News)—Dean McGee says Liberty Justice Center is suing the Davidson County Board of Education on behalf of 16-year-old Davidson High School student Christian McGhee. “Last month during English class, there was a discussion about the word aliens,” the attorney explains. “Christian raised his hand and asked, ‘Are you...
Were Boy’s Constitutional Rights Violated with Punishment for Saying ‘Illegal Aliens’?
(The National Desk)—North Carolina school officials are being accused of violating a student’s constitutional rights after suspending him for saying the words “illegal aliens” in class. The Liberty Justice Center filed a lawsuit this week against the Davidson County Board of Education in Lexington, North Carolina, on behalf of a...
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...