A group of Iowa student athletes say state law enforcement agents misused geolocation data to ding them for underaged gambling.
In the switch to electronic filing, the tradition of public access to new court pleadings was undermined by state court clerks all around the nation. Many clerks have now agreed to reinstate traditional access. But far from all.
NEW ORLEANS — A federal court in New Orleans denied a parish school board’s request to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that three suburban school employees used physical violence on a blind, autistic 12-year-old student in separate incidences on the same day. The child’s family’s claims are supported by video and witness testimony. According to the parents, the school board posits that “kicking, hitting, and slamming a child’s head into a table somehow does not constitute battery.”
PORTLAND, Maine — A federal court in Maine denied two aviation companies’ motion to deny sex discrimination claims brought against them by a fired employee. She has plausibly alleged she was fired only because her male partner was fired, based on a sexist stereotype that she would have abandoned the job to “stand by her man” if she wasn’t fired.
SAN ANTONIO — A federal court in Texas denied a conservative political group’s motion for an injunction against the city of Kerrville, whose ordinances regulating “peddlers and solicitors” and “electioneering” allegedly violate the First Amendment. The suing organization and its members did not show the city had specific plans to engage in proscribed conduct, so they lack standing to receive an injunction or restraining order.
A conservative nonprofit in Colorado lost an appeal of its claim that the state’s additions to the titles of its ballot initiatives compelled private speech.
A federal judge sent the jury home for the weekend, but ordered jurors to return Monday in the case against a civilian contractor over abuses in the Iraq War.
The states claim the employment commission added abortion-related requirements that were never part of the bipartisan Pregnant Workers Fairness Act.
The university found student protestors in violation of a school policy on Thursday — one Northwestern officials only enacted that morning.
NEW ORLEANS — The Fifth Circuit reversed a Texas federal court’s dismissal of a disabled Black employee’s retaliation and discrimination claims against Navarro County, where he worked in the drug trafficking division. He was in remission from cancer that was treated with throat surgery, so he asked to work remotely in 2020 to avoid contracting Covid-19, but his supervisor denied this and he was placed on leave after complaining about it. The lower court erred in determining the employee hadn’t produced enough evidence of his claims.
PORTLAND, Maine — A federal court in Maine dismissed all claims brought against the town of Westbrook and several of its officials, who were sued by a former employee for sex discrimination. His supervisor allegedly treated him differently not because he was a man, but because he replaced the supervisor’s paramour, which would not constitute sex discrimination if true.
