In Muldrow v. City of St. Louis, the U.S. Supreme Court considered what protections Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 provides to employees who claim they were the victims of a discriminatory transfer....more
On March 15, 2024, the United States Supreme Court handed down its decisions in Lindke v. Freed and O’Connor-Ratcliff v. Garnier, two similar cases which broadly asked when public officials may be liable for their use of...more
A recent United States Supreme Court decision on the scope of personal jurisdiction, i.e., a court’s authority to exercise jurisdiction over a particular party, could potentially have lasting impacts on the way states decide...more
7/5/2023
/ Commerce Clause ,
Due Process ,
Florida ,
Fourteenth Amendment ,
Mallory v Norfolk Southern Railway Co ,
Out-of-State Companies ,
Pennsylvania ,
Personal Jurisdiction ,
Scope of Discovery Requests ,
SCOTUS ,
Toxic Exposure
As the school year begins, a heightened focus has been placed on schools both nationally and at the local level. Schools are becoming the battlefield where some of the most high-profile cultural clashes occur, which means...more
10/11/2022
/ Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Appeals ,
Carson v Makin ,
Disability Discrimination ,
Establishment Clause ,
First Amendment ,
Free Exercise Clause ,
Free Speech ,
Kennedy v. Bremerton School District ,
Reasonable Accommodation ,
Religious Accommodation ,
Risk Management ,
SCOTUS ,
Stop Woke Act
Earlier this summer, the U.S. Supreme Court found that Maine’s tuition assistance program violated the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment. In order to fulfill the Maine Constitution’s guarantee that every child...more
While it is axiomatic that when the government speaks, it speaks only for itself; however, the line between government and private speech can be easily blurred. The City of Boston learned this lesson the hard way when the...more
Well that didn’t take long. Fresh off the Supreme Court’s June 2022 decision in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, 142 S. Ct. 2407 (2022), the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has resolved any ambiguity as to...more
On January 13, 2022, the Supreme Court issued rulings in two consequential cases involving COVID-19 vaccination mandates enacted by two different Federal agencies, one from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration...more
1/17/2022
/ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Constitutional Challenges ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Employer Mandates ,
National Federation of Independent Business v Department of Labor and OSHA ,
OSHA ,
SCOTUS ,
Stays ,
Vaccinations ,
Virus Testing ,
Workplace Safety
In the colorfully known “cursing cheerleader” case, the U.S. Supreme Court found a student’s school violated her First Amendment rights. In an 8-1 decision authored by Justice Breyer and decided Wednesday, June 23, 2021, the...more
In 1969, the Supreme Court recognized both that students do not surrender their First Amendment rights at the schoolhouse gates, but that schools do have the right to discipline students for speech that could cause...more
5/3/2021
/ Code of Conduct ,
Disciplinary Proceedings ,
Educational Institutions ,
First Amendment ,
Free Speech ,
Mahanoy Area School District v B.L. ,
Online Platforms ,
Oral Argument ,
SCOTUS ,
Snapchat ,
Student Speech ,
Students ,
Tinker v Des Moines Independent Community School Dist.