The Illinois Appellate Court recently held that the Tort Immunity Act (“Act”) did not shield a school district from negligence liability when a student was injured by a fall in…
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In A.S., R.S. and S.S. v. Office for Dispute Resolution, Quakertown Community Unit School District, a Pennsylvania school district, signed off on a settlement agreement in a special education related…
In Smith v. the State of Indiana, a high school principal was convicted for failing to comply with a mandatory reporting requirement after he waited four hours to report to…
In 1998, Gillespie Community Unit School District No. 7 contracted with Wight & Company for architectural services, including a “site mine investigation” of an area under consideration for the construction…
The Seventh Circuit recently upheld the district court’s finding that a former tenured teacher’s Age Discrimination in Employment Act claim was barred from federal court by the preclusion doctrine as…
In Richter v. College of DuPage, Blanche Richter, a student at the College of DuPage, sustained injuries after falling on an uneven sidewalk. Richter alleged that the college had actual…
In Porter v. The Illinois State Board of Education, et al., the Plaintiff, Kecia Porter, challenged the special education accommodations provided to her daughter, K.P., an elementary student in Chicago…
In Green v. American Federation of Teachers and Illinois Federation of Teachers Local 604, Robert Green, an Aurora East School District No. 131 teacher, sued the AFT and the IFT…
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a school district’s appeal regarding the constitutionality of a prohibition on the cancer awareness “I ♥ Boobies” bracelets. The Easton Area School…
In a major ruling affecting all Illinois school districts, on June 5 the Illinois Appellate Court (Fourth District) reversed the decision of the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board (“IELRB”). The…