Educator made valid racial discrimination claim
The 7th Circuit ruled a black school administrator in Chicago stated a valid racial discrimination claim after she was laid off.
14th Amendment
Va. teacher sues nurse, school over strip search
A nurse and other school officials are being sued because they conducted a strip search of a teacher's body in order to determine if she had scabies.
Can you sue in Nev. for what happened in Ga.?
The 14th Amendment's Due Process Clause led the Supreme Court to reverse a 9th Circuit decision where a Nevada woman sued a DEA agent from Georgia.
Nat’l Assoc. of Basketball Coaches files amicus brief in affirmative action case
The National Association of Basketball Coaches has filed an amicus ("friend of the Court") brief with the US Supreme Court in the case of a white girl who was denied admission to the University of Texas, Austin, but says she was more qualified than many of the African-American students who were admitted, because the university uses race as one of the factors in deciding admission.
A homeless ‘protester’ in Naperville
We look at a new Naperville, IL, ordinance, spurred by one man, a lone protester downtown, against the 14th Amendment.