On Sept. 28, the Department of Education announced it will rescind 2024 Title IX rules that aimed to provide protections to students against sexual harassment, anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination, and pregnancy discrimination. The decision officially reverts Title IX standards back to those in place prior to 2024, including 2020 rules from the first Trump administration that limited…
Statement on the U.S. Department of Education lawsuit to restore Office for Civil Rights Staff: “Yesterday, we amended our lawsuit against the government’s efforts to dismantle the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights to bring the case as a class action. As part of our amended complaint, another family has also come forward to…
Public Justice’s statement in response to the Supreme Court’s denial of South Carolina’s application for a stay of a Fourth Circuit injunction allowing a transgender ninth-grader to use school restrooms consistent with his gender identity. “Today’s decision from the Supreme Court reaffirms what we all know to be true: Contrary to South Carolina’s insistence, trans…
Public Justice’s statement in response to South Carolina’s request that the Supreme Court of the United States intervene in a transgender student’s appeal: “South Carolina wants the Supreme Court to take the extraordinary remedy of intervening in an ongoing lower court appeal – all because the state wants to stop one ninth grader from using…
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has enjoined the State of South Carolina, a South Carolina school district, and other defendants from denying a transgender boy access to boys’ restrooms at school when he starts high school today. The appeals court granted an injunction pending appeal in a lawsuit challenging the state’s…
Media Contact: Nicole Funaro | nfunaro@publicjustice.net WASHINGTON, D.C. — A student, “John Doe,” and his mother, “Jane Doe,” have filed a civil rights lawsuit against a Washington, D.C. private school, St. Anselm’s Abbey School. The lawsuit challenges the School’s failure to protect John Doe from daily harassment to which he was subjected based on his…
Families and victim rights advocates Victim Rights Law Center and other individuals, represented by Public Justice and pro bono co-counsel, have filed a lawsuit to challenge the Trump Administration’s decision to undermine the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) by imposing a massive reduction in force that cut half of the OCR’s staff and closed half its regional offices. The move closed a major…
Lexington, Ky. — A national legal advocacy organization has asked to intervene in a federal lawsuit to defend federal protections for pregnant and postpartum students in light of the new administration’s signals that it no longer intends to do so. Public Justice, BraunHagey & Borden LLP, and Pillersdorf Law Offices represent A Better Balance, which…
This month, President Trump passed a new executive order, Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports, in an attempt to ban transgender girls from playing on girls’ sports teams. This order might seem like it upends or dismantles critical legal protections for LGBTQ+ students, but that power is a smokescreen. An executive order cannot undo students’…