In Brooks v. McLean County District Unit No. 5, the Appellate Court affirmed the dismissal of a complaint alleging that the death of a student was the result of the…
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In The Board of Education of Gardner-South Wilmington High School District 73 v. The Village of Gardner, the Illinois Appellate Court ordered the Village of Gardner to make payments pursuant…
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In Bass v. Joliet Public School District No. 86, Corina Bass, a former employee of Joliet Public School District No. 86 alleged that she was discriminated against on the basis…
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In Lutkauskas v. Rickter, the Illinois’ Appellate Court ruled that taxpayer plaintiffs have no right under the Illinois School Code to file a complaint for civil penalties for a school…
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On March 20th, the Illinois Supreme Court, in People v. Melongo, found the eavesdropping statute unconstitutional. The case arose from a defendant in a criminal proceeding who obtained a transcript…
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In Matthew S. v. St. Charles Community Unit School District No. 303, No. 13 CV 03106, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago dismissed a…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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