LJC In The News
(The Center Square)—The state’s law prohibiting candidates who didn’t run in a primary from getting on the general election ballot won’t go into effect this year after the Illinois Supreme Court dismissed the state’s appeal of a lower court ruled it unconstitutional. Ron Andermann, a Republican running for the statehouse...
(Chino Valley Champion)—The Orange County Board of Education and the Anderson Union High School District in Northern California, south of Redding, have voted to join the Chino Valley Unified School District in its lawsuit challenging AB 1955, which is legislation that would ban schools from informing parents when their child...
(The Center Square)—A Texas-based group wants a local school district to stop encouraging voters to reject a constitutional amendment that would increase school choice options across the state. The Liberty Justice Center recently sent a demand letter to the Pulaski County School District after the district posted a message on...
(Tampa Free Press)—The Liberty Justice Center has filed a legal brief supporting a challenge to a Carbondale, Illinois law that creates “bubble zones” around healthcare facilities, restricting free speech within these areas. The law, aimed at pro-life activists near abortion clinics, has a broader impact, creating over 150 zones where...
(Tampa Free Press)—The Liberty Justice Center has issued a demand letter on behalf of Kentucky taxpayers, accusing the Pulaski County School District of illegal election interference for using public resources to oppose a proposed ballot measure that would expand educational freedom in the state. The school district posted messages on...
(Southern California Record)—The Orange County Board of Education and a far northern California school district have joined their names to a lawsuit challenging a new California state law that challengers say can be used by public schools and teachers to block parents from knowing if their children are transitioning gender....
(Cook County Record)—Saying the state has trampled the free speech rights of business owners, one of Illinois’ leading free market public policy advocacy organizations has petitioned a federal judge to strike down a new Illinois state law threatening employers with fines or other government action if they discuss politics or...
(The Center Square)—The Liberty Justice Center filed a First Amendment lawsuit to challenge a recently enacted Illinois law that would prohibit companies from holding mandatory meetings where “religious or political matters” are discussed. Liberty Justice Center Senior Counsel Jeffrey Schwab explained that political matters as defined in the law extends...
(The Center Square)—The Orange County Board of Education, representing the third most-populated county in California, and Anderson Union High School District voted to join a lawsuit against AB 1955, a law that bans K-12 schools from notifying parents of students’ gender change requests. The lawsuit, filed by Liberty Justice Center...
Six years ago, in Janus v. AFSCME, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the First Amendment prohibits the government from compelling its employees to pay any money to a union in order to maintain their job. Specifically, the Court put an end to the practice in Connecticut and 23 other...
(New Jersey Monitor)—A Mercer County plumber is suing Hamilton’s school district and a pipefitters union, alleging they forced him to pay union dues in defiance of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that bars mandatory dues for public sector workers. In a filing submitted Thursday, Nicolo Giangrasso alleges he sought to...
(Tampa Free Press)—The Liberty Justice Center filed a lawsuit Thursday against a New Jersey union for allegedly violating a local plumber’s constitutional rights by using semantics to skirt a Supreme Court ruling. The union claimed that the landmark 2018 decision Janus v. AFSCME doesn’t apply because they labeled the money...
(Fox News)—Attorneys for John Parks, a track and field coach in Oregon, filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against the school district where he previously worked. The Lake Oswego School District, which oversees Lake Oswego High School, and the Lake Oswego School Board fired him last month after he sent a...
(Tampa Free Press)—The Liberty Justice Center has filed a First Amendment lawsuit against the Lake Oswego School District on behalf of John Parks, a high school track and field coach, who was dismissed for proposing an open division for transgender athletes to ensure fairness for all student-athletes. John Parks, who...
(OutKick)—John Parks has trained runners at the high school, collegiate, and Olympic levels for more than forty years, but was recently fired as the track and field coach at Lake Oswego High School in Oregon for fighting for fairness in women’s sports. Now, a law firm is fighting on his...