June 5, 2025 Written by Shawn McLain & Penney Rector On June 5, 2025, the United States Supreme Court issued a unanimous ruling in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services that eliminates a higher evidentiary burden previously imposed on "majority group"...
Client Alert: Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Student in Free Speech Case
The June 23, the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in a First Amendment student speech case marking the first time the Court has taken up the issue in over fifty years. The case involved off-campus student speech taking place outside of school hours. ...
Supreme Court Rules Discrimination on the Basis of Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity is Unlawful
On Monday, June 15, 2020, the Supreme Court issued a landmark decision clarifying that employers cannot discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 makes it unlawful for an employer to discriminate...
Section 504: What’s New and What’s Next – By: Betsey Helfrich
Published by MARE, November 2017 This spring was a busy season for the United States Supreme Court with regard to special education cases. One case decided by the Court in February 2107, Fry v. Napoleon Community Schools, (137 S.Ct. 743) may have an impact on the...