Transgender Bathroom Directive Prompts Lawsuit from 11 States
(Photo: Wikimedia, Creative Commons) Eleven states have sued the Obama administration over its sweeping directive urging all public school districts to grant transgender students access to bathrooms that correspond with their preferred gender identity. The Obama administration argues that sex discrimination is prohibited by Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and Title IX […]
Oklahoma School Funding Lawsuit Looks to Right 20-Year Wrong
(Photo: Ilea Shutler, Oklahoma Watch) A state law in Oklahoma that would help to fund public schools was passed 23 years ago but never implemented – and now, 48 school districts are looking to the Oklahoma State Supreme Court to take action on the matter. Filed on behalf of the school districts, the lawsuit names Oklahoma State […]
Lawsuit From Parent Group Results in Student Privacy Mess
Because of a suit being brought against the state of California by a parent group, roughly 10 million students’ public-school records are about to be given to attorneys — and both parties in the suit blame the other for the upcoming release of personal student data. There will be fewer than ten people who will view […]
Lawsuit Alleges Google Illegally Scanned University E-mails
A lawsuit against Google has been filed in a San Jose federal court alleging that the company scanned their academic-affiliated Gmail accounts. The plaintiffs, four former and current University of California, Berkeley students, claim their email accounts were taken, processed, and kept by Google, now known as Alphabet, for the purposes of analytics, advertising, and tracking between […]
Judge: Lawsuit Over Law School’s Alleged Fraud Will Proceed
A long-running class-action lawsuit which suggests that one of the lowest-performing law schools in the country is guilty of fraud has been officially cleared to go to trial, which could generate serious problems for schools with high tuition rates for low-quality degrees. A California judge has ruled that false-advertising claims made against the Thomas Jefferson School […]