Congratulations to the dozens of Illinois school districts whose are celebrating the dismissal of Austin v. Bd. of Ed. CUSD #300 et al. today! Great work by Melanie Renken, who argued for the dismissal on August 10, 2022, and to Heather Igoe, Vince Reese, and the...
During the 2021-2022 school year, the Attorney General for Missouri filed several lawsuits against public school districts to challenge their legal authority to implement COVID mitigation measures like masking. In one of the few cases where the Court weighed in on the...
A win for schools and their rights to make local decisions. Congratulations to Natalie Hoernschemeyer, Grant Wiens, Jasmine McCormick and Kelley Millaway. Read the full article here.
By: Brittany Newell and Josh Douglass An uncomfortable truth is that no parent can be with their child every second of every day. Many parents must rely on the eyes and ears of others to help protect their children. In the school system in particular, parents and the...
On January 3, 2019, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit handed down its decision in favor of the Palmyra R-I School District (“District” or “Palmyra”) in the case of E.D. et al. v. Palmyra R-I School District. The case was on appeal from the...
Congratulations to the attorneys of Mickes O'Toole for obtaining a win in the Missouri Court of Appeals for the West District for her client, CSMA BLT, LLC. The Appellate Court upheld the trial court’s determination on summary judgment that a foreclosure sale...
Mickes O'Toole attorneys Natalie Hoernschemeyer and Betsey Helfrich secured a dismissal of the Crocker R-II School District Due Process/IDEA Complaint in the Western District of Missouri.
The Eastern District of Missouri recently entered judgment in favor of a defendant school district on a four-count Complaint, which included claims for discrimination and retaliation under the Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act (Section 504), Title II of the...
On October 18, 2013, three weeks after hearing oral argument, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit handed down its decision in favor of the South Callaway R-II School District in the case of B.M. v. Sought Callaway R-II School District. In this...
Natalie Hoernschemeyer of the firm’s education department successfully represented Poplar Bluff R-I School District before the Missouri Court of Appeals. After a hearing before the District’s Board of Education, the Board terminated a tenured teacher for incompetency...
