Natalie Hoernschemeyer and Anne Kerns obtained a victory for a Missouri public school district in a case pending before the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri. Plaintiff employee brought a whistleblower claim under Missouri Revised...
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...
