Case Database
Created 12/17/2025
Last update 12/17/2025
What’s at stake Whether undocumented immigrants who graduate from Kentucky high schools have access to the same affordable college education as their classmates. Summary Like over two dozen other state laws, a Kentucky regulation has long allowed undocumented immigrants who graduate local high schools to attend...
Created 06/18/2025
Last update 06/18/2025
What’s at stake: Safe and equitable schools for Black students and students with disabilities Summary: For his entire year as a sixth grader at St. Anselm’s Abbey School, classmates harassed “John Doe” because he is Black and autistic. They publicly called him race- and disability-based...
Created 03/26/2025
Last update 03/26/2026
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 this last group include explicit rights to lactation...
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 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...
Created 11/13/2024
Last update 02/17/2026
What’s at stake: The rights of transgender students in South Carolina to use restrooms consistent with their gender identity.
Summary: In 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit confirmed that transgender students must be allowed to use restrooms consistent with their gender identity. Yet, in the summer of...
Created 10/01/2024
Last update 10/01/2024
What’s at stake: Whether Florida can ban transgender teachers from using pronouns and titles that best express who they are. Summary: Katie Wood is a 10th grade algebra teacher in a Florida public school. She is also a transgender woman. Her students have always addressed...
Created 09/12/2024
Last update 09/16/2024
What’s at stake: Whether a key federal employment law protects students workers from discrimination Summary: Meng Huang, a former PhD student at the Ohio State University, filed a lawsuit alleging a shocking pattern of abuse: Her advisor had sexually harassed her for years, starting the...
Created 09/12/2024
Last update 10/01/2025
What’s at stake: What protections federal and Michigan civil rights law provides student victims of racial harassment
Summary: The Malick family lived in Sanilac County, Michigan, which is overwhelmingly white. Their daughter, “C.M.,” is Black. While a student at Croswell Lexington School District, C.M. was subject to relentless racial harassment by...
Created 07/09/2024
Last update 07/09/2024
The Students’ Civil Rights Project represents a Texas student who endured over a year of sex-based verbal abuse that drove her to the brink of suicide. The case seeks to make clear that schools cannot wait until harassment drives a student out of school before...
Created 05/14/2024
Last update 11/12/2024
Public Justice filed an amicus brief to defend a California law that gives thousands of sexual abuse survivors access to justice by lifting the harsh deadlines that used to bar their claims. Plaintiff Jane Doe was sexually abused by her school guidance counselor at Richmond...