The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently held that a middle school teacher’s use of the “N” word during class discussion was not protected by the First Amendment. In Brown…
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Category Archives: Vanessa Clohessy
In a recent case, the appellate court upheld the dismissal of a personal injury claim against a school district, reinforcing the one-year statute of limitations protection provided in the Local…
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently rejected a claim of reverse discrimination brought by a professor against Northern Illinois University. In Rahn v. Board of Trustees of Northern Illinois…
The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals recently dismissed a case against two school districts in which a student and her parents alleged that one of the school districts failed to…
Recent amendments to the Right to Privacy in the School Setting Act restrict access by schools to student social media accounts. Initially the Act gave schools the right to request…
Clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch’s refusal to hire a Muslim job applicant who wore a headscarf to her interview was religious discrimination, even though the company had no actual knowledge…
A Chicago federal district court has ruled that a former assistant principal of Community Consolidated School District No. 15, who had been suspended and her contract nonrenewed, failed to produce…
In 2012, tenured Chicago Public Schools Kindergarten teacher Kathleen Kinsella showed up to work, having enjoyed three sangrias at dinner the night before. She still smelled of alcohol when she…
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently erased the victory of the Good Samaritan Ministries in an employee termination case, Ledbetter v. Good Samaritan Ministries, et al.,…
A federal district court has ruled that a former principal of Peoria School District No. 150, who had been reclassified to a teaching position, failed to produce any evidence supporting…