Author: Jane Coleman

Jane Coleman

Jane Coleman writes on law and policy and lives in New Jersey. Her legal treatise Secondary Trademark Infringement was published by Bloomberg BNA. You can follow Jane on Twitter @JaneBColeman and LinkedIn.

Tables Turned: Prof. Amy Wax, Charged With Wrongthink, Files Counter-Grievance Against U Penn Law Dean

Posted by Jane Coleman on January 26, 2023 31 Comments

Wax filing: “The Dean’s charges are nothing more than an attempt to use the sanction process … as a means of punishing and silencing the most powerful dissenting voice on campus and preventing students from being exposed to important conservative ideas.”...

Yeshiva University Inches Its Way Back To SCOTUS By Appealing LGBTQ Club Ruling To NY’s Highest Court

Posted by Jane Coleman on January 19, 2023 15 Comments

The motion is the latest step on YU's path back to the United States Supreme Court....

NY Times and WaPo Continue Smear Campaign Against Orthodox Jews As Antisemitic Hate Crimes Surge

Posted by Jane Coleman on January 03, 2023 20 Comments

"It is very clear that the NY Times would never target another minority group in this fashion, certainly not at a time when that same minority is being targeted for hate crimes like no other on the streets of the city," says Rabbi Yaakov Menken....

Online Mob Forces Editor-in-Chief of Major Psychology Journal To Resign Over Contrived Racism Accusations

Posted by Jane Coleman on December 29, 2022 49 Comments

The petition mob made short work of taking down Klaus Fiedler....

Yeshiva University Must Recognize LGBTQ Club, Appeals Court Rules

Posted by Jane Coleman on December 16, 2022 24 Comments

Rejects Yeshiva's claim to be an exempt "religious corporation" and rejects Yeshiva's 1st Amendment claim: "Providing the Pride Alliance with full and equal access to public accommodations does not intrude on Yeshiva’s asserted right “to decide matters ‘of faith and doctrine.’"...

Rhode Island Father Stands Strong Against Radical Race and Gender Indoctrination In Public Schools

Posted by Jane Coleman on December 11, 2022 16 Comments

Westerly, Rhode Island, father Robert Chiaradio was convinced that if only people could see it with their own eyes, they would join his battle to remove Maia Kobabe’s book, Gender Queer: A Memoir, from the high school library.

Court: Barrington (RI) School Committee Liable For Attorney’s Fees Of Teachers Fired Over Covid Vax Mandate

Posted by Jane Coleman on October 09, 2022 10 Comments

A follow up to our prior coverage of the three Christian teachers fired after the district refused even to consider their requests for religious exemption. Court imposed a $500 fine for an open meetings violation and more significantly, the teacher's attorney's fees that could be...

Yeshiva University and ‘Pride Alliance’ Agree To Stay Of State Court Order That Forced School To Officially Recognize LGBT Group

Posted by Jane Coleman on September 23, 2022 10 Comments

The Supreme Court indicated it likely would take the case once state appeals were exhausted, and likely would rule in favor of the university....

U Penn Law Prof. Amy Wax Seeks Dismissal Of University Disciplinary Proceedings: “Premature, Unwarranted, and Prejudicial”

Posted by Jane Coleman on September 16, 2022 22 Comments

"The substantive and procedural problems with the proceedings instituted by Dean Ruger are immense and require immediate rectification ...

NY Times Hit Piece On Hasidic Education Published On Eve Of NY Regents Vote To Undermine All Religious Schools

Posted by Jane Coleman on September 11, 2022 47 Comments

A New York Times article attacking boys’ Hasidic schools was published today, on the eve of the New York State Board of Regents vote on regulations poised to undermine the way Jewish religious schools have operated for generations. The timing of The Times' attack appears...

How A Weak Penn Law Dean Weaponized Student Hurt Feelings Against Dissident Prof. Amy Wax

Posted by Jane Coleman on August 23, 2022 34 Comments

Wax: Dean Ted Ruger "has the power to shut it all down in a second...

NY State Proposed Regulations Threaten Orthodox Jewish Schools

Posted by Jane Coleman on July 18, 2022 41 Comments

A proposed set of regulations that require private schools to be “substantially equivalent” to public schools threaten to wreak havoc with Orthodox Jewish yeshivas in New York. Religious education leaders and parents are starting to fight back....

Vaccine Mandate That Led To Firing Of Three Barrington (RI) Teachers Lacked Necessary Public Notice, Court Rules

Posted by Jane Coleman on May 26, 2022 24 Comments

The judge has scheduled a hearing on remedies for June 21, 2022. If the firing was the fruit of a poisonous tree -- the imposition of a vaccine mandate in violation of the Open Meetings Act -- the firing should be reversed as it was...

“Just Devastating” – Three Teachers Who Sought Religious Exemption From Covid Vaccine Fired In Barrington (RI)

Posted by Jane Coleman on May 16, 2022 31 Comments

Barrington, Rhode Island, schoolteacher Stephanie Hines asks me whether we can make our Sunday morning phone call an hour later than I had planned. She needs a little time after church.

Laurie Gaddis Barrett – Fighting To Help Rhode Island Parents Take Back Their Children

Posted by Jane Coleman on March 21, 2022 11 Comments

Rhode Island mother Laurie Gaddis Barrett has testified at so many legislative hearings that she has to pause to remember which one I’m asking her about. And when I ask her why the message she just texted me is written in legalese, she says she’s spent so much time talking to lawyers, she’s beginning to sound like one herself. (I almost suggested she should consider going to law school, but they’re woke now, too.) With all she has learned this past year, she could be teaching civics. For Barrett, fighting for parents' rights has been transformative—and nearly a full-time job. But it wasn’t always.