Controversy abounds over the rights of instructional personnel who avoid referring to transgender students by names or pronouns inconsistent with their birth sexes because doing so would violate their First Amendment rights to freedom of […]
On October 8, 2024, in a 4-3 decision in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Scardina, the Supreme Court of Colorado may have finally ended the long-running ordeal of persecution by lawfare of Jack Phillips. The high-profile case began […]
In April 2024, Colorado officials adopted a law allowing students to change their chosen names without having to inform their parents, a school board policy. Under this policy in Jefferson County (near Denver), parents were […]
As I have detailed in previous pieces, an ongoing battle rages over parental rights to direct the upbringing of their children. The latest skirmish in this fight is Mahmoud v. McKnight, a dispute from Montgomery County, Maryland. In Mahmoud, an interfaith coalition of Muslim, Eastern […]
A recent decision of the Supreme Court of Vermont reflects the ongoing erosion of parental rights at the hands of the judiciary and school officials. On July 26, 2024, in Politella v. Windham Southeast School […]
A federal trial court has refused to dismiss key claims that leaders in a local chapter of the Knights of Columbus, a national Catholic fraternal service organization, filed against the Town Commission in Fairfield, Connecticut. […]
Anti-religious discrimination continues unabated in Maine two years after the Supreme Court’s 2022 ruling in Carson v. Makin. That ruling prevented officials from excluding faith-based schools from the state’s “tuitioning” program, which assists families in rural […]
In the early morning hours of August 1, 2024, after a conference committee from the two chambers of the Massachusetts legislature reconciled the differing versions of the forty-two-page House Bill 4750, both the House (156-0) and Senate […]
Recent litigation from Michigan and New Jersey, involving different factual settings focused on the same underlying issues regarding religious freedom in education, reveal two widely varying degrees of respect for the ministerial exception, which affords […]
On July 15, 2024, Governor Gavin Newsom of California signed the radical progressive law Assembly Bill 2955 into effect. As I discussed in an earlier column, the deceptively named “Support Academic Futures and Educator Today’s Youth […]
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