LJC In The News
More Public Educators Sign on to Challenge CA Law Letting Teachers ‘Keep Secrets’ from Parents
(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....
Lawsuit: New IL Law Tramples Business Owners’ First Amendment Speech Rights
(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...
Lawsuit: Illinois ‘Worker Freedom of Speech Act’ Violates Employers’ Free Speech Rights
(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...
Orange County Joins Suit Against Ban on K-12 Notifying Parents of Gender Changes
(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...
Government Employees Cannot Be Compelled to Pay Any Money, Regardless of Labels, to a Union
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...
School Plumber Says Union Forced Him to Pay Dues, Contrary to Supreme Court Ruling
(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...
Liberty Justice Center Sues New Jersey Union for Violating Plumber’s Constitutional Rights
(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...
Former Oregon High School Track and Field Coach Files Lawsuit after Dispute over Transgender Athlete Law
(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...
Lawsuit Against Oregon School District for Firing Coach
(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...
Lawsuit Filed Against School District After Track Coach Fired For Proposing Open Division For Trans Runners
(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...
Denton ISD Admin Delays Criminal Electioneering Case Again
(Texas Scorecard)—Court delays continue to stall a ground-breaking criminal electioneering case initiated by local voters against two Denton Independent School District administrators who urged their staff to vote for anti-school choice candidates in the Republican primary. Denton ISD principals Lindsay and Jesus Lujan sent the political messages using the district’s...
SoCal School District Sues Newsom over State’s New Child Gender Identity Law
(Fox 11 Los Angeles)—A Southern California school district filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state challenging Assembly Bill 1955 which prohibits schools from notifying parents of their child’s gender identification change. The law bans school rules requiring teachers and other staff to disclose a student’s gender...
‘Keeping Secrets’: School District, Parents Challenge New CA Law Blocking Parents from Knowing about Students’ Gender IDs
(Northern California Record)—The raging legal dispute over whether public school teachers can block parents from knowing if their children have adopted a transgender identity at school continues to intensify, as a San Bernardino County school district has joined with parents and public interest legal organization to challenge a new California...
California School Sues over Ban on K-12 Schools Notifying Parents of Gender Changes
(The Center Square)—California parents and a school district filed a joint federal lawsuit against the state over its new ban on public schools notifying parents of students’ gender change requests. Soon before the lawsuit was filed, entrepreneur Elon Musk announced he is moving the headquarters of X, formerly known as...
Lawsuit Filed Against Gov. Gavin Newsom over California Gender Identity Notification Law
(KTLA)—The Liberty Justice Center, a national litigation firm, has filed a lawsuit against Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday, challenging a new law that prohibits California school districts from notifying parents of a child’s gender identification change. The filing was announced on X, formerly known as Twitter. The lawsuit names Newsom,...