LJC In The News
CTU Members File Lawsuit Against Union, Davis Gates: ‘This Is Not Her Piggy Bank’
(Chicago City Wire)—The transfer of Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) funds towards political efforts to elect Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson in 2023 is at the heart of a recent lawsuit brought by union member Philip Weiss and three other CTU members. Weiss, a Chicago Public Schools social worker who was on...
Chicago Teachers Union Threatens Members Who Sued After Four Years with No Audit
(The Center Square)—The Liberty Justice Center is suing the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) on behalf of four CTU members, demanding that the union produce an audit after failing to do so for four years. In this interview with the Center Square, Liberty Justice Center attorney Dean McGee and plaintiff Philip...
CPS, Teachers Union Set Sights on Special Property Tax Districts to Plug Schools’ Budget Hole with Different Visions
(The Chicago Tribune)—… Meanwhile, on Wednesday, the Liberty Justice Center filed a lawsuit on behalf of four CTU members, which alleges the union has not complied with its contractual duties to produce its annual audit detailing union finances. The last published CTU audit covered the first half of 2019, according...
Chicago Teachers Union Sued by Own Members for Release of Financial Audits
(The National Desk | Crisis in the Classroom)—The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) was sued by four of its own members Tuesday, who allege the union has failed to produce a financial audit for four years. CTU’s bylaws require the union to present a report on its finances at each “regular...
Lawsuit: CTU Has Wrongly Refused for Years to Release Financial Audits, Show How Spending Members’ Dues
(Cook County Record)—As Chicago’s mayor prepares to install a new school board believed to be more amenable to the mayor’s plans to borrow hundreds of millions of dollars to meet some of the contract demands of his allies in the Chicago Teachers Union, that union has been hit with a...
CTU Accused of Intimidation, Lack of Financial Transparency in Lawsuit
(Fox 32 Chicago)—The Liberty Justice Center filed a lawsuit Tuesday on behalf of four Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) members, demanding that the union release a financial audit after allegedly failing to do so for the past four years. According to the Liberty Justice Center, the organization sent a demand letter...
Chicago Teachers Union Refuses to Disclose Where Money Is Going, Lawsuit Alleges
(The Daily Caller)—The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) has failed to produce required financial audits disclosing how its money was spent over the past four years, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday. Multiple union members who work for Chicago Public Schools filed the suit alleging CTU’s most recent audit only covered...
Chicago Teachers Union Sued by Members for Failing to Provide Financial Audits
(Tampa Free Press)—The Liberty Justice Center filed a lawsuit against the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) on behalf of four union members, demanding the release of long-overdue financial audits. The lawsuit alleges that CTU has not fulfilled its obligation to provide an audited financial report for the past four years, as...
Wyoming GOP Gov. Removes Doctor from State Board for Opposing Transing Children
(The Federalist)—Wyoming radiologist Eric Cubin petitioned the federal court in Cheyenne last week to reinstate him to Wyoming’s Board of Medicine. Cubin was appointed to the board, which oversees the licensing and regulations of the medical profession, by Republican Gov. Mark Gordon in 2023 and reappointed to another four-year term...
Supreme Court Will Let SF Enforce Campaign Donor Disclosure Ordinance, Despite Speech Concerns
(Northern California Record)—The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to step in to take down a San Francisco city ordinance that forces campaign committees to disclose the identities of their donors, despite widespread concern the requirement tramples First Amendment free speech rights. And in the wake of the Supreme Court’s action,...
Law Firm Appeals Dismissal of Challenge to City of Lincoln Gun Regulations
(KOLN)—A law firm representing a Nebraska firearms group has filed an appellate brief in the Nebraska Court of Appeals in hopes of overturning a lower court order that dismissed a case against the City of Lincoln and Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird regarding several firearm restrictions. The lawsuit, filed on Dec....
Texas Group Assisting Iowa Farmer in Challenging USDA-Related “Swampbuster” Statute
(Southeast Texas Record)—A Texas-based nonprofit group is one of two entities seeking judgment on the pleadings in their challenge to a federal law that they argue unconstitutionally takes farmers’ property without compensation. On Oct. 3, the Liberty Justice Center, along with the Pacific Legal Foundation, filed a motion for judgment...
Casper Doctor Asks Federal Court for Reinstatement to the Wyoming Board of Medicine
(Oil City News)—Casper Dr. Frederick William “Eric” Cubin III wants his old job back. In April, Gov. Mark Gordon removed him from the Wyoming Board of Medicine for his February support of a bill to regulate gender-affirming surgeries for children. On Aug. 29, Cubin sued Gordon through his attorneys in...
Liberty Justice Center Demands Kentucky School District Cease Illegal Electioneering
(Tampa Free Press)—The Liberty Justice Center (LJC) issued a formal demand letter to a Kentucky school district on Wednesday, calling for an immediate halt to its illegal use of taxpayer funds to lobby against a proposed ballot measure. The letter also alleges that the district is selectively blocking constituents on...
Attorneys Seek Injunction Forcing Governor to Restore Radiologist’s Role on State Medical Board
(Radiology Business)—Attorneys are seeking a preliminary injunction, compelling Wyoming authorities to restore a radiologist’s role on the state medical board after he was forced to resign in April. The Liberty Justice Center filed the motion on Tuesday in its ongoing lawsuit against Republican Gov. Mark Gordon. Attorneys with the nonprofit,...