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EDUCATION
Y.H. v. Aviles-Ramos

1:25-cv-04217 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: May 21, 2025

This is a case challenging the constitutionality of the burden of proof applied in school disciplinary hearings for long-term suspensions. On May 21, 2025, the Plaintiffs, three minor students in New York City Public Schools, filed this lawsuit in the Southern District of New York. The Plaintiffs brought this action against Melissa Aviles-Ramos in her official capacity as Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, the New York City Department of Education, and the City of New York…

Case Is Ongoing

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Nathan v. Alamo Heights Independent School District

5:25-cv-00756 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: July 2, 2025

This a case challenging Texas Senate Bill 10 (S.B. 10), which required public schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms.   On July 2, 2025, the plaintiffs, a group of Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Unitarian Universalist, and nonreligious families with children enrolled in Texas public school districts (collectively, “the families”), filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court of the Western District of Texas.  Represented by private counsel as well as the ACLU of Texas, the n…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Mirabelli v. Olson

3:23-cv-00768 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: April 27, 2023

This is a case about parental notification rules related to transgender and gender non-conforming students in schools. On April 27, 2023, two middle school teachers sued the Escondido Union School District (EUSD), the California State Board of Education, and various associated officials in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California before Judge Roger T. Benitez, challenging the school district policy AR 5145.3. The challenged policy requires teachers and staff to r…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
GLBT Youth in Iowa Schools Task Force v. Reynolds

4:23-cv-00474 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: Nov. 28, 2023

The Iowa governor signed SF 496 into law on May 26, 2023. SF 496 includes an Age-Appropriate Standard, an Identity and Orientation Prohibition, a Library Restriction provision (together, the Book Restriction provisions), and a Parental Notice provision. The Age-Appropriate Standard dictates that school libraries must contain “only age-appropriate materials” which cannot include “any material with descriptions or visual depictions of a sex act.” SF 496 defines sex act broadly and does not accoun…
EDUCATION
Madison McPherson v. Jurupa Unified School District

5:25-cv-02362 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Sept. 9, 2025

[This summary is temporary while we research the case.] On September 9, 2025, Plaintiffs allege that Defendants have knowingly permitted a male student to compete on the JVHS varsity girls’ track and field and volleyball teams, access female locker rooms and bathrooms, and engage in harassing conduct toward female athletes. As a result of Defendants’ actions, Plaintiffs claim they have suffered sex discrimination, including sexual harassment, unsafe and unfair athletic environments, viewpoint d…

Case Is Ongoing

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Doe 1 v. Mukwonago Area School District

2:23-cv-00876 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Filed Date: June 30, 2023

Closed Date: Dec. 1, 2023

[This summary is temporary while we research the case.] On June 30, 2023, Jane Doe filed suit against Mukwonago Area School District and its superintendent in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. Plaintiff alleges that defendants have taken—and continue to implement—a series of discriminatory and highly stigmatizing actions against Jane Doe based on her sex, gender identity, and transgender status. The actions include (a) applying shifting policies that have in common the …

Temporary Restraining Order Granted

Appeal Dismissed

SCHOOL DESEGREGATION
United States of America v. State of Mississippi

3:70-cv-04706 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: July 9, 1970

Closed Date: Aug. 6, 2025

Fifteen years after Brown v. Board of Education (1954), 88% of Mississippi’s black students still attended all-black schools. Ubiquitous “freedom of choice” plans let white children transfer to predominantly white schools. Individual lawsuits and threats of funding cuts from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare proved unable to effect wholesale desegregation. But in 1969, the Supreme Court ruled that the freedom of choice plan in Holmes County, Mississippi, was unconstitutional and …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Corbett v. Register

7:16-cv-00116 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia

Filed Date: June 30, 2016

Closed Date: July 25, 2016

This is a case about maintaining equal populations across voting districts.  A resident of Echols County in the Superior Court of Echols County filed a lawsuit on June 3, 2016 against the Echols County Board of Education, seeking that the Board members be elected from districts of equal population.  Prior to the lawsuit, on December 5, 2006, the Board held a meeting to discuss, amongst other things, the Board’s district lines. The populations of each district were presented to the Board and a p…
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Wood v. Florida Department of Education

4:23-cv-00526 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Dec. 13, 2023

This lawsuit challenged the constitutionality of a Florida statute that prohibits public school teachers from sharing their personal pronouns or titles with students if those identifiers do not match the sex assigned to them at birth.  On December 13, 2023, three Florida public school teachers filed suit against the Florida Department of Education, the State Board of Education, multiple Florida state officials in their official capacities, and the teachers’ respective employers: Hillsborough Co…
EDUCATION
Doe v. Horne

4:23-cv-00185 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: April 17, 2023

This is a case challenging an Arizona statute (A.R.S. § 15-120.02) that excludes transgender girls from participating in school-based sports teams that align with their gender identity. On April 17, 2023, the plaintiffs — school-aged transgender teens who were denied participation on several girls' school sports teams due to their assigned sex at birth — filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona against the state's Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Arizona Inters…