Education Law
1213 ABA Journal Education Law articles.
A federal appeals court is giving a pro se parent a chance to persuade a federal judge that she may represent her minor children without a lawyer in a federal lawsuit filed against a Texas school district.
Jun 6, 2023 12:39 PM CDT
If the U.S. Supreme Court restricts
the consideration of race in college admissions, there is another looming issue: whether schools can use race-neutral tools that boost diversity.
May 31, 2023 11:59 AM CDT
A lawyer in Camden, South Carolina, plans to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to rename
Brown v. Board of Education for the first case taken to federal court in a quest to eliminate the separate-but-equal doctrine.
May 31, 2023 9:50 AM CDT
None of the U.S. Supreme Court decisions issued so far this term has split strictly along ideological lines, even with two decisions decided by 5-4 votes and three by 6-3 votes, according to the Empirical SCOTUS blog.
May 16, 2023 2:12 PM CDT
After receiving letters from various law school deans with concerns about cutting the Law School Admission Test requirement, the council of the ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar on Friday walked back plans to go forward with the proposal in August.
May 12, 2023 2:28 PM CDT
The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Boston on Wednesday overturned mail and wire fraud convictions of two fathers accused of paying bribes to gain admission to top colleges for their children.
May 12, 2023 9:51 AM CDT
A federal judge has ordered the Saucon Valley School District in Hellertown, Pennsylvania, to permit the After School Satan Club to meet in school facilities.
May 2, 2023 9:53 AM CDT
Unless there is an emergency matter to be heard, the U.S. Supreme Court completed oral arguments for the October 2022 term April 26. The court is expected to hand down decisions by the end of June in all of the argued cases, with a flurry of decisions in the most high-profile cases expected at the very end. What are likely to be the most important rulings from the October 2022 term?
Apr 27, 2023 8:51 AM CDT
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday refused to reinstate a West Virginia law that bans transgender athletes from playing on female sports teams.
Apr 7, 2023 9:17 AM CDT
A disbarred lawyer can’t become an emergency substitute teacher in Pennsylvania after education officials found that he doesn’t satisfy the requirement for good moral character, a Pennsylvania appeals court has ruled.
Mar 28, 2023 11:17 AM CDT
A Stanford Law School administrator shown at a campus event with the Federalist Society in which audience members heckled a federal appellate judge told her side of the story Thursday in an
opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal.
Mar 24, 2023 11:32 AM CDT
Stanford Law School is requiring its students to attend an educational session on free speech following students’ “disruptive heckling” of a conservative federal appeals judge during a March 9 speech with the Federalist Society.
Mar 23, 2023 11:09 AM CDT
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that a deaf student can pursue damages for an inadequate education under the Americans With Disabilities Act, even though he didn’t exhaust remedies under a federal education law.
Mar 22, 2023 12:04 PM CDT
11th Circuit allows block on Stop Woke Act
The Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has refused to disturb an injunction that prevents Florida public universities from enforcing a…
Mar 17, 2023 3:00 PM CDT
A provision of federal law that allows sanctions for multiplying legal proceedings “unreasonably and vexatiously” applies to lawyers but not their law firms, a federal appeals court has ruled.
Mar 14, 2023 12:46 PM CDT
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