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District Court Allows First Amendment and Due Process Claims to Proceed in Flynn v. Big Spring School District

Flynn v. Big Spring Sch. Dist., No. 1:22-CV-00961, 2024 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 168913, at *2 (M.D. Pa. Sep. 19, 2024) (District Court permits Plaintiffs who were regular attendants at school board meetings to move forward with...more

2/25/2025 / Civil Rights Act , Discrimination , Due Process , Equal Protection , First Amendment , Fourteenth Amendment , Free Speech , Public Schools , School Boards , School Districts

Updated Process for Enforcement of Pennsylvania’s School Bus Stop-Arm Camera Program

Pennsylvania law requires motorists coming from any direction to stop at least ten (10) feet from a school bus with its lights flashing and stop-arm sign extended. Unfortunately, data suggests that many motorists fail to...more

6/6/2024 / Public Safety , Public Schools , Safety Precautions , State and Local Government

Federal Court Grants Preliminary Injunction for Title IX Claim, Precluding School District from Preventing Female Students from...

Brooks v. State Coll. Area Sch. Dist., No. 4:22-CV-01335, 2022 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 217173, at *2 (M.D. Pa. Dec. 1, 2022). The United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania granted the Plaintiffs’ Motion...more

2/21/2023 / Preliminary Injunctions , Public Schools , School Districts , Sex Discrimination , Student Athletes , Students , Title IX , Title IX Coordinator

School District’s Discipline for Off-Campus Social Media Post Violated Student’s First Amendment Free Speech Rights

In re Appeal of G.S., 269 A.3d 718, 722 (Pa. Commw. Ct. 2022), appeal denied, 61 MAL 2022, 2022 WL 2447538 (Pa. July 6, 2022) (The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court determined that the expulsion of a student for a social media...more

10/21/2022 / Expulsion , First Amendment , Free Speech , Public Schools , School Districts , Social Networks , State Constitutions , Student Speech , Students

Ban of Disruptive Parent from School Events not an Unconstitutional Speech Infringement

McNett v. Jefferson-Morgan Sch. Dist., 2:21-CV-01064-RJC, 2021 WL 5505849, at *1 (W.D. Pa. Nov. 23, 2021) (A parent’s challenge to being banned from school events for disruptive behavior found not to have violated his...more

3/3/2022 / First Amendment , Free Speech , Public Schools , School Districts , School Policies

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