Supreme Court case involving a learning disabled child named Alex Muth and his special education rights. Allegation by Muth's father that the revised individualized education program (IEP) for his son was inappropriate; Claim that the administrative proceedings had violated two procedural requirements ...
Learn about the development of the juvenile justice system. Examine a series of U.S. Supreme Court cases establishing the rights and protections of...
The cases before the court this term involved Harvard, the nation's oldest private institution, and the University of North Carolina, the oldest public university. Both disputes were brought in November 2014 by the group Students for Fair Admissions, founded by conservative activist ...
The Supreme Court has for weeksbeen weighingnumerous cases involving qualified immunity, the legal doctrine that protects government officials from lawsuits stemming from conduct on the job unless they violate "clearly established" constitutional rights. But qualified immunity for police officers, in partic...
the Court eradicated the separation between church and state when it comes to public funding for education, opening the door to future decisions that would further mandate the public funding of religious education. Prior to the ruling, states could fund religious education but were not obliged to ...
The Supreme Court has heard several race-conscious admissionscasessince Bakke, including the most recent involving Harvard and UNC. Both of these cases were spearheaded by Edward Blum, a conservative legal activist who opposes the consideration of race and ethnicity in the U.S. and who ...
Supreme Court. Today the Supreme Court reaffirmed the ability of state courts to adjudicate 1933 Act class action cases, holding that “SLUSA did nothing to strip state courts of their longstanding jurisdiction to adjudicate class actions alleging only 1933 Act violations.” At the time of its ...
A special case cleanup initiative concluded 1,914 lawsuits pending for over three years and 2,455 pending cases involving 6,909 individuals, accounting for 81.3% and 86.8%, respectively, of the total cases. The title of this section is significant. Judges at all levels of courts feel that ...
Understand what it means to be adjudicated and identify the 1967 Supreme Court decision that established this outcome for juvenile cases Explain the purpose of a disposition in a juvenile proceeding and know why a juvenile is not sentenced
The Supreme Court ruled colleges and universities can no longer take race into consideration as a specific basis in admissions — a landmark decision that overturns long-standing precedent that has benefited Black and Latino students in higher education.