The Illinois Supreme Court is allowing a group of school districts to file an appeal in a case asserting that the State is not funding schools adequately enough to provide…
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Due to the increasing dependence on remote-work arrangements as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Department of Labor issued a guidance memorandum to all employers regarding the requirement…
In Kirilenko-Ison et al. v. Board of Education of Danville (Kentucky) Independent Schools, a federal appellate court held that two school nurses engaged in protected activity under the Americans with…
On September 22, 2020, President Trump issued Executive Order 13950, Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping. The stated purpose of the Executive Order is to discourage the promotion of “race or…
In a nonbinding opinion, the Illinois Attorney General’s Public Access Counselor found that the Chicago City Council violated the OMA on three separate occasions by holding conference calls about the…
In a nonbinding opinion, the Illinois Attorney General’s Public Access Counselor found that the Village of Orland Park improperly denied a FOIA request for the lists of users who had…
Student athletes and their parents filed a class-action lawsuit against the IHSA, seeking a temporary restraining order to immediately overturn the COVID-related postponement of a majority of fall sports, including…
In Manteno Community Unit School District No. 5 v. PTAB, an Illinois appellate court ruled that the PTAB used an incorrect method to value Heritage Woods, a supportive-living facility, for…
In the ironically named case of Arnold v. Barbers Hill Independent School District, two Texas brothers filed suit against their school district in the U.S. District Court for the Southern…
As we previously reported, on May 15, 2020, the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) issued a 45-page Letter of Impending Enforcement Action concerning the Connecticut Interscholastic…