Plaintiffs appealed from the district court’s grant of summary judgment, dismissing their complaint, which alleged that an elementary school student’s First Amendment rights were violated when he was suspended for six days after expressing a wish for v… Continue reading
Plaintiff brought suit under 42 U.S.C. 1983, alleging that defendants had retaliated against her for exercising her rights under the First Amendment. The district court granted summary judgment to defendants, holding that the speech on which plaintiff … Continue reading
Plaintiffs appealed from a judgment of the district court granting summary judgment in favor of a school district and principal on 42 U.S.C. 1983 claims arising out of the treatment of their son, a middle school student with a history of misbehavior in… Continue reading
The New York State Department of Education and related defendants appealed from an order of the district court denying their motion to vacate an award of attorney’s fees to plaintiff where the district court had awarded plaintiff attorney’s fees pursua… Continue reading
Defendants appealed from an order of the district court granting summary judgment to plaintiffs and entering a permanent injunction barring the Board of Education of the City of New York (“Board”) from enforcing a rule that prohibited outside groups fr… Continue reading
Plaintiffs, former students of Ithaca High School, claimed that defendants violated their First and Fourteenth Amendment rights by prohibiting the publication of a sexually-explicit cartoon in the Ithaca High School student newspaper (“IHS newspaper”) … Continue reading
The United States sued the New York City Board of Education and related parties (“City Defendants”) claiming a violation of Title VII’s prohibition of disparate impact selection measures. The parties entered into a settlement in 1999 despite objection… Continue reading
Plaintiff sued defendants, public school officials in Burlington, Connecticut, under 42 U.S.C. 1983 alleging, among other things, violations under the First Amendment when they prohibited her from running for Senior Class Secretary in response to her o… Continue reading