This is a class-action lawsuit alleging racial resegregation in the Nashville public school system. In July 2008, the Metropolitan Nashville Board of Public Education (the Board) adopted a new studentassignment plan generally referred to as the Rezoning Plan. The Rezoning Plan modified the student-a...   MORE>>

This case presents the question whether the federal Constitution compels Michigan s public schools to collect membership dues for unions that represent public-school employees. Enacted in 2012, Michigan s Public Act 53 provides: A public school employer s use of public school resources to a...   MORE>>

After receiving a complaint from a student concerning one of its part-time instructors, Columbia College Chicago faculty members and administrators interviewed the student on several occasions and also interviewed the faculty member. The school ultimately informed the faculty member, Suriya Smiley, ...   MORE>>

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act ( IDEA ) provides for grants of federal funds to States for the education of disabled children. To meet the eligibility requirements for the full amount of funds allocated to a State, that State must not reduce the amount of its own financial suppo...   MORE>>

Paul and Melinda Muskrat brought a civil rights action on behalf of their disabled son against the school district where he attended school for several years and against certain school district employees. The Muskrats alleged that the defendants unconstitutionally subjected their son to timeouts and...   MORE>>

Dr. Madhwa Raj, a professor of biochemistry and obstetrics and gynecology at Louisiana State University ( LSU ), appeals the district court s dismissal of his complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction and for failure to state a claim on which relief can be granted. We find that soverei...   MORE>>

In 2009, Christine Johnson, an instructor in graphics, was denied a tenure-track position in the Engineering Department at the University of Puerto Rico's Mayaguez Campus ("UPR"). Three others did receive tenure-track positions: one woman and two men, all of whom had Ph.D.'s, as the position descrip...   MORE>>

Rocket Learning, Inc., an educational services provider based in Puerto Rico, appeals from a district court order dismissing with prejudice this civil rights action, filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 1983, against defendant Jes s Rivera-S nchez, personally and in his official capacity as Puerto Rico'...   MORE>>

No one would deny that Donald Trump, the real estate magnate, television personality, author, and erstwhile presidential candidate, cuts a celebrated, if controversial, public figure. We must decide whether Trump University, LLC, a private, for-profit entity purporting to teach Trump s insider ...   MORE>>

Katherine Lees began her freshman year at Carthage College in the fall of 2008. On September 21, 2008, she was sexually assaulted in her dorm room by two men she believed to be Carthage students. Lees withdrew from Carthage after the attack and eventually brought this negligence action against the c...   MORE>>