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The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) requires parents challenging IEPs and IEP-related decisions to exhaust...

This week news media reported that Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Mary Ellen Brennan dismissed all claims filed against the Oxford...

The United States Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently issued a carefully worded fact sheet noting that...

The United States Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, reversing Roe v. Wade, generated a tidal wave...

The COVID-19 pandemic served up a national Rorschach test. Many Americans saw COVID related mandates as necessary to preserving public...

Wikipedia calls “eugenics” a “fringe set of beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population. ...

Michigan’s Court of Appeals issued an unpublished per curiam decision holding that a school district employer’s absolute right to...

This blog has covered several court decisions, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions, striking down state laws that discriminate against...

The extension of civil rights to include gender-related issues inevitably generates conflict between those who identify as or support the...

Educators Legal Services, PLLC, is pleased to announce that its owner, Robert A. Lusk, was recognized in the 29th edition of The Best...

A full-blown OCR investigation can be a long, expensive, and tedious process. In the meantime, the dispute lingers and the relationship...

A few days ago, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Carson v Makin, 596 US ___ (2022), holding a State program that funded...

On June 21, 2022, for the fourth time in eight years, the Supreme Court ruled that a state program that discriminated against sectarian...

May a publicly funded charter school impose a dress code that requires girls to wear skirts? The Fourth Circuit, en banc, answered this...

Title IX was enacted in 1972 to counter then-prevalent discrimination against women by prohibiting discrimination “on the basis of sex.” ...

Note - I don't usually express my personal opinion on the legal developments reported here, at least not explicitly. But I believe this...

In civics class, we learn about three branches of government: legislative, executive, and judicial. We don’t learn much, if anything,...

In Shurtleff v City of Boston, ___ US ___ (May 2, 2022), the United States Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision prohibiting the City...

The Supreme Court recently held that damages for mental anguish and emotional distress are not available under Section 504 of the...

On May 6, 2022, the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) solicited comments for potential new regulations implementing Section 504 of the...