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Created 03/26/2025
Last update 03/26/2025
What’s at stake: Protections for pregnant and postpartum students Summary: In 2024, the U.S. Department of Education published new Title IX regulations. The regulations cover a range of topics, including the rights of LGBTQ+ students, sexual harassment victims, and pregnant and postpartum students. Protections for...
Created 03/26/2025
Last update 03/26/2025
What’s at stake: Whether people who are incarcerated can bring lawsuits without fear of retaliation. If sheriffs are allowed to charge pay-to-stay fees as retaliation for filing a lawsuit, sheriffs may be able to persuade others from bringing those claims. Summary: When Michael Wappler brought...
Created 03/20/2025
Last update 03/20/2025
What’s at Stake Employers are using artificial intelligence (AI) hiring tools, such as software that uses AI to analyze recorded video interviews, that disproportionately reject some applicants based on their disability and race. Summary D.K. is Indigenous and is a Deaf woman who speaks with...
Created 03/17/2025
Last update 03/18/2025
What’s at Stake Standing is the legal principle that decides who gets to bring a lawsuit. Typically, a person needs to have been injured by the actions of another to have standing to bring a lawsuit. But in recent years, the U.S. Supreme Court has...
Created 03/17/2025
Last update 03/17/2025
What’s at Stake Corporations that are in the middle of employment lawsuits should not be able get out of litigation by imposing new fine print terms onto the employees that take away their right to sue the employer. Summary In 2022, Bo Avery and his...
Created 03/17/2025
Last update 03/18/2025
What’s at Stake Preserving municipal liability for systemic prosecutorial misconduct under Section 1983 and Monell v. Department of Social Services, 436 U.S. 658 (1978), in the Ninth Circuit. Summary Roger Wayne Parker languished in jail for nearly four years for a murder the Riverside County...
Created 03/05/2025
Last update 03/17/2025
What’s at Stake The FCC has abandoned the “one-to-one consent” rule, which would have prevented a telemarketer from selling consumers’ information to other telemarketers after the consumer consented to be contacted only by that one telemarketer. Details Four small business owners and the National Consumers...
Created 03/03/2025
Last update 04/07/2025
What’s at stake: Protections for pregnant and postpartum students Summary: In 2024, the U.S. Department of Education published new Title IX regulations. The regulations cover a range of topics, including the rights of LGBTQ+ students, sexual harassment victims, and pregnant and postpartum students. Protections for...
Created 02/05/2025
Last update 02/05/2025
What’s at stake: Protecting trans students from “forced outing” policies. Summary: In 2023, Temecula Valley Unified School District adopted a forced outing policy. The rule required schools to inform a student’s parents or guardians if they requested to use a name or pronoun, or access...
Created 01/15/2025
Last update 01/15/2025
What’s at Stake When a new law is enacted, it must also be interpreted and applied correctly by courts. That’s why the first legal cases regarding a new law can be extremely important. This case is about ensuring a 2022 law protecting access to justice...
Created 12/10/2024
Last update 12/10/2024
Wellpath is one of the largest providers of correctional health care services in the United States. On any given day, Wellpath is responsible for providing care to more than 220,000 people at over 400 carceral facilities, including prisons, jails, and immigration detention centers. Since its...
Created 12/09/2024
Last update 12/09/2024
What’s at stake: The amount of time a survivor has to file a lawsuit under Title IX. Summary: Just before she turned 21, E.R., a South Carolina resident, filed a lawsuit against her former school district, Beaufort County School District, for violating her Title IX...