LJC In The News
Chicago Parents Represented by Liberty Justice Center
(Fox & Friends)—Liberty Justice Center is representing Chicago area parents as they navigate the battle for in-person education, while the Chicago Teachers Union continues to keep schools closed. The following interview aired on Fox & Friends on January 30, 2021.
...Teachers Unions Want Schools Closed. Parents Need Their Power Back.
(Liberty Justice Center)—Suing teachers unions is the only way to empower parents, protect kids. For the better part of a year, we have witnessed the financial, emotional and educational struggles of families dealing with school shutdowns – school shutdowns that are extreme when compared to the rest of the industrialized...
A CTU Strike Would Be Wrong – and Likely Illegal
(The Chicago Tribute)—The Chicago Teachers Union approved a measure Wednesday night that would call for all staff to work remotely Monday, including those K-8 teachers scheduled to work at school that day. If the teachers who refuse to work in person are blocked from using their remote teaching devices, CTU’s...
‘Kids Are Not Pawns’: Fairfax Co. Parents Angry About Organized Teacher Mental Health Day
(ABC7 WJLA News)—Liberty Justice Center sent the Fairfax Education Association (FEA), the county’s largest teachers union, a letter warning further legal action if they take another ‘organized’ mental health day. Liberty Justice Center (LJC) said it represents several Fairfax County Public School families who are “deeply concerned” the union “encouraged...
Lawsuit Challenges University’s Authority to Track Students Through Data Collection
(The College Fix)—ANALYSIS: Lawsuit filed over swipe-card data collection could pave way for precedent on students’ Fourth Amendment rights An important lawsuit is unfolding that has the potential to affect the Constitutional rights of college students across the United States. College students don’t sign away their privacy rights the minute...
Parents Push Back Against OEA
(Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs)—The Oklahoma Education Association continues to criticize school-choice policies and efforts to preserve in-person instruction at public schools. But the teachers’ union is drawing strong online pushback from parents—even on the OEA’s own Facebook page. This week, the union criticized a new poll that showed 61...
Attorney General: Oklahoma Department of Education Acted Illegally
(Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs)—An official opinion issued by the office of Attorney General Mike Hunter concludes the Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE) acted illegally when it imposed new regulations on a state scholarship program for children with special needs. To serve beneficiaries of the Lindsey Nicole Henry (LNH)...
Four Beta Theta Pi Members Sue IU Over Privacy Violations and Breach of Contract
(News Edge)—Four current Beta Theta Pi members — Cameron Gutterman, Dale Nelson, Hunter Johnson and Brian Hiltunen — filed a lawsuit Thursday against IU and IU President Michael McRobbie for privacy violations and breach of contract. All four were in Beta Theta Pi’s fall 2018 pledge class. They are now...
Wisconsin Think Tank Fights Press Blacklisting at Seventh Circuit
(Courthouse News)—Wisconsin’s governor is unfairly barring a conservative think tank’s journalists from attending press events because of the group’s political views, its attorney argued in the Seventh Circuit on Friday. The Madison-based John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy, which refers to itself as “the free market voice of Wisconsin,”...
Appeals Court Hears Media Access Case Against Evers
(Wisconsin Public Radio)—In a hearing Friday before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, a conservative think tank argued the Evers administration violated the First Amendment by denying the group access to a press briefing and to the administration’s media advisory list. The MacIver Institute for Public Policy,...
Lawsuit Claims IU Violated Constitution In Search of ID Card Data
(The Indiana Lawyer)—According to the complaint, the four plaintiffs were freshman pledges to the Beta Theta Pi fraternity when IU began investigating allegations of a hazing incident in the fall of 2018. The plaintiffs told the university they were in their dorm rooms at the time in question, and IU...
Parents Suing West Ada Education Association, Claiming Illegal Strike
(CBS2 Idaho News)—A group of parents have filed a lawsuit against the West Ada Education Association, claiming this week’s sick-outs are an illegal strike. Daniel Suhr, who is a lawyer with the Liberty Justice Center is representing those parents. He spoke with 670 KBOI’s Nate Shelman on Tuesday afternoon. “Idaho...
South Carolina Supreme Court Set to Hear Arguments on Constitutionality of SAFE Grants Program
(The Center Square)—South Carolina’s Supreme Court will hear arguments Friday on the constitutionality of a program that would provide scholarships to enable families struggling financially because of COVID-19 to keep their children in nonpublic schools. Funded with federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act dollars, Gov. Henry McMaster’s...
Judge Urged to Keep Montana Political Spending Rule
(AP News)—Attorneys for Montana’s governor urged a federal judge Thursday to uphold an executive order that requires companies to report political contributions if they want to bid on large state contracts, in a case that could test whether so-called dark money groups can avoid public disclosure of spending. A conservative...
Fight Over Private School Grants Could Be Heading to the SC Supreme Court
(WISTV)—The battle over grants that would help pay for private school tuition across the state might be heading to the South Carolina Supreme Court. Opponents of Governor Henry McMaster’s Safe Access to Flexible Education grants, also called SAFE grants, filed a lawsuit last month. It came after McMaster allocated $32...