As we informed you on April 3, 2025, the U.S. Department of Education sent letters to State Education Agencies (SEAs), including ISBE, requiring the SEAs to certify that their schools…
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*Updated April 9, 2025 On April 3, 2025, the U.S. Department of Education sent letters to State Education Agencies (SEAs), including ISBE, requiring the SEAs to certify that their schools…
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In A.A. v. Board of Education of Summit School District No. 104, a school administrator found a loaded pellet gun, with the orange safety tip spray painted back, in the…
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City Colleges of Chicago received a Freedom of Information Act request seeking graduation-related records of its students. The colleges denied the request, claiming the records were exempt from disclosure under…
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In Inendino v. Nance-Holt, et al., a firefighter/EMT was terminated and placed on the no rehire list after making racially offensive comments on Facebook, violating the Chicago Fire Department (CFD)…
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In a binding opinion, the Illinois Attorney General's Public Access Counselor (PAC) found that a village board violated the Open Meetings Act (OMA) by failing to make two board meetings…
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In State of Tennessee, et al. v. Cardona, et al., a federal district court in Kentucky issued a ruling in one of the several lawsuits nationwide challenging the legality of…
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In a recent opinion, Snyder v. United States, 603 U.S. 1 (2024) (slip op.), the U.S. Supreme Court held that a federal criminal bribery law, 18 U.S.C. § 666, regulating…
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In Passarella v. Aspirus Hospital, Inc., and Bube v. Aspirus Hospital, Inc., the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals (the federal appellate court with jurisdiction over Illinois) ruled that employees who…
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We have previously reported on various social media cases involving public entities, and a recent decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in People for…
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