Tag: 1st Amendment
SCOTUS denies appeal in NY vaccination case
The Supreme Court has decided not to hear a case that allows New York schools to send non-vaccinated students home if an outbreak occurs.
Lesson-sharing sites & copyright law
It's a tricky business to post lesson plans online. Who owns those lessons? Can you charge people money for access to those lessons?
Volkswagen admits to cheating on emissions tests
VW admitted they engineered emission-control technology in order to get around certain emission laws in the US and elsewhere.
Ga. school investigating mass Christian baptism
On a video, it looks like a coach and his football players were baptized on the football field, apparently right before a practice in mid-August.
Can you fly a drone over a school?
We wonder whether it would be allowed to fly a drone over a school. You can't fly them over airports, but we're not sure about schools.
Ky. clerk won’t issue same-sex marriage licenses
A court clerk in Kentucky says signing a same-sex marriage license would violate her Apostolic Christian conscience.
Should you take selfies in a ballot booth?
A law in N.H. seeks to protect people from having to prove they voted a certain way, but it may ban speech that should be protected.
N.C. Supreme Court upholds vouchers
Despite pleas from several school board groups, local and national, the NC Supreme Ct. has ruled the state's voucher program is constitutional.
Dwarfs object to school mascot in Freeburg IL
Should Freeburg Comm H.S. near St Louis change its mascot from the Midgets to something else to avoid offending dwarfs?
Madison board bans shirts with Indian teams
A Wis. school district has banned, say, team jerseys that have Native American mascots. We're neutral on the morals but think banning T-shirts was a mistake.










