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About Charles J. Russo
Charles J. Russo, M.Div., J.D., Ed.D., Joseph Panzer Chair of Education in the School of Education and Health Sciences (SEHS), Director of SEHS’s Ph.D. Program in Educational Leadership, and Research Professor of Law in the School of Law at the University of Dayton, OH, specializes in issues involving education and the law with a special focus on religious freedom. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Notre Dame University of Australia School of Law, Sydney Campus. He can be reached at crusso1@udayton.edu. All views expressed herein are exclusively his own.
The Dispatch

Vermont COVID vaccination case raises serious question about parental rights

September 8, 2024 Charles J. Russo 42

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 […]

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Anti-Catholic discrimination is in season in Fairfield, Connecticut

September 3, 2024 Charles J. Russo 2

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. […]

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Maine doubles down again on discrimination against faith-based schools

August 18, 2024 Charles J. Russo 9

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 […]

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Massachusetts Bill will eliminate “mother” and “father” from parenting laws

August 6, 2024 Charles J. Russo 21

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 […]

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The ministerial exception, religious freedom, and a tale of two courts

August 3, 2024 Charles J. Russo 0

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 […]

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Updated: California runs roughshod over parental rights

July 21, 2024 Charles J. Russo 17

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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Supreme Court to weigh in on regulating puberty blockers, hormone therapy

July 8, 2024 Charles J. Russo 3

Recent litigation suggests that a return to sanity may be in the offing over puberty blockers and hormone therapy for minors wanting “gender-affirming care” as they seek to transition. On June 24, 2024, shortly after South […]

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Proposed CA bill would severely undermine parental rights, authority

June 27, 2024 Charles J. Russo 2

In September 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 107 into law, making California a sanctuary state offering shelter to transgender children and their parents who leave jurisdictions restricting access to gender-affirming care to minors. The state senate has now approved […]

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Colorado federal court rebuffs anti-Catholic directive denying preschool education

June 17, 2024 Charles J. Russo 1

St. Mary Catholic Parish in Littleton v. Roy is another win, albeit a narrow one, for religious freedom in education. Administrators in two Catholic preschools, along with parishioner-parents of two children attending St. Mary preschool […]

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Updated: LACofFD member refuses to raise Pride Flag, or white flag, to gender ideology

June 5, 2024 Charles J. Russo 16

As recently reported by The Catholic News Agency, Catholic World Report, and other sites, Captain Jeffrey Little, a devout evangelical Christian, was a member of the Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACofFD) for more than twenty-two years. Little […]

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