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.
School Board Member: “Quite frankly, it’s not the parents’ damn business” to know about the policy....
Court: “The school’s policy is a trifecta of harm”—it harms the students, it harms the parents, and it harms the plaintiffs "who are compelled to violate the parent’s rights by forcing plaintiffs to conceal information they feel is critical for the welfare of their students---violating...
Lawyer for Parents: "This 11-year-old girl was being told that her parents don't love her. That they can't keep her safe. She can't trust them. She can only trust the people at the school."...
The states' war on school boards is a war on parents. In California, parents are fighting back....
Tahmineh Dehbozorgi fled a tyrannical regime that persecutes its political opponents. Now she faces threats for voicing her own political views....
NY Court: "The utilization of an individual's religious beliefs and practices to limit their inclusion is the very definition of religious discrimination."...
NJ Parent: “They’re making it like they’re suing the Board of Ed. [But] they’re suing the parents and they’re suing the taxpayers who support the Board of Ed.”...
Dissent: Majority's decision is "an unfortunate abdication of judicial duty ...
The ALA's new president wants to build "collective power" and "queer the catalog." Multiple states have withrawn from or are in the process of withdrawing from the ALA in protest of the deepening radicalism of the organization....
Massachusetts requires foster families to “support and respect a child’s sexual orientation or gender identity.”...
Mead's estate wants the agreement establishing the chapel name honored. The Judge's ruling clears the way for the case to move toward discovery....
Last Friday the court heard oral argument over whether the Mead descendants can sue the school for removing their ancestor's family name from its iconic chapel 100 years after its dedication. ...
Public schools are encouraging students to socially transition behind their parents’ backs, claiming secrecy is necessary to keep kids “safe”—from their parents....
NYT dropped the article just before the Sabbath of a holiday weekend, so that those affected could not respond for at least 24 hours....
Former Ambassador David M. Friedman on U.S. boycott of Israeli institutions in the so-called West Bank: "Make no mistake. The United States, by this action, is embracing the BDS Movement."...
The school de-named Mead Chapel because of a single speech by the namesake, ignoring that Middlebury was a hotbed of eugenics support for decades. Shouldn't the entire school be renamed by that logic?...
The court rejected the defendants' bid to have the suit dismissed under the anti-SLAPP statute, rejecting claim that de-naming lawsuit was an attack on their free speech....
Under the guise of "inclusivity," the document leaves “antisemitism” so poorly defined that it creates a pretext for permitting it instead of a plan to stop it....
