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Public educational institutions have struggled to implement Title IX regulations for several years.  The Trump administration issued a...

In school we all learned about three branches of government – executive, legislative, and judicial.  But we didn’t learn much, if...

Recent administrations have “yo-yoed” about Title IX’s applicability to sexual orientation and identity.  During the Trump...

What is associational retaliation?  The following example may help.  Employee A files a lawsuit against his Employer alleging illegal...

In 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court prohibited public sector unions from requiring employees to join a union or pay an agency fee as a...

On February 8, 2024, the United States Supreme Court defined the burden of proof in Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblowers cases.  Murray v. UBS...

“Give me a child until he is 7, and I will give you the man.”  Ignatius Loyola Whether the saying is always true, children’s...

In Hile v. State of Michigan, Case No. 22-1986 (November 6, 2023), the Sixth Circuit rejected a political process challenge to Michigan's...

Readers may recall that a little more than a year ago, on September 22, 2022, I published a short piece about a Ninth Circuit decision...

Robert A. Lusk, the owner of Educators Legal Services, was again recognized by his peers as one of the "Best Lawyers in America" in...

On June 30, 2023, we summarized the Supreme Court’s decision in Groff v. DeJoy, which expanded employers’ duties to accommodate...

The Supreme Court’s June 30, 2023 decision in 303 Creative LLC v Elenis, Case No. 21-476, held the State of Colorado could not compel a...

The Supreme Court's June 30, 2023 decision in Biden v Nebraska, Case No. 22-506, disappointed thousands of student loan recipients by...

Michigan’s Court of Appeals addressed perhaps the last significant legal issue related to the COVID-19 pandemic in T & V Associates, Inc....

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII), employing language similar to the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA),...

The Supreme Court first countenanced race-conscious college admissions policies 45 years ago in Regents of Univ. of Cal. V. Bakke. In...

We carefully follow Sixth Circuit cases because they define how federal laws will be applied in Michigan. A recent Sixth Circuit least...

Student social media use and misuse raise questions of when and under what circumstances a public school can discipline students for...

Generally, Section 6431 of the Revised Judicature Act, MCL 600.6431, prohibits a lawsuit against the State of Michigan (or any of its...

The United States Department of Education (DOE) has issued a proposed amendment to the regulations implementing Title IX and athletics. ...