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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

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Religion and girls’ basketball

MANHATTAN — The Second Circuit restored a Christian school’s lawsuit against the Vermont Principals’ Association, which expelled the school from all state-sponsored extracurricular activities from because it forfeited a girls’ playoff basketball game to avoid playing a team with a trans athlete. The appellate court says the suing school and parents are likely to succeed on their claim that the association was hostile to their religious beliefs in expelling the school.

Read the ruling here.

Categories / Appeals, Briefs, Civil Rights, Education

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