by Jennifer Childress | Feb 24, 2021 | Legal Developments
S.C. and B.C., individually and on behalf of their minor daughter, C.C., filed a disability discrimination lawsuit against Round Rock ISD, an assistant principal, and journalism teacher. The suit alleged that C.C. was diagnosed with and treated for Anorexia Nervosa...
by Jennifer Childress | Oct 18, 2018 | Education News
According to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), there has been a heightened demand for information and advice on workplace sexual harassment since the start of the #MeToo movement one year ago. The EEOC says it is stepping up enforcement of workplace...
by Jennifer Childress | Aug 28, 2018 | Breaking News
When T.R. was a baby, he sustained massive brain damage from a tainted vaccine. Over a decade later, his guardian and trustee sued Keller Independent School District, where he was enrolled, for discrimination in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”)...
by Jennifer Childress | May 16, 2018 | Headline News, Legal Developments
A Dallas-based teacher is suing the Mansfield Independent School District for discrimination following a sequence of events that led to her being put on leave and transferred to another district last fall. Stacy Bailey, an art teacher at Charlotte Anderson Elementary...
by Jennifer Childress | Jan 23, 2018 | Legal Developments, Personnel, Students
In Ayala v. Houston ISD, No. CV H-16-2503, 2018 WL 496898, at *1–2 (S.D. Tex. Jan. 22, 2018), a federal district court weighed in on whether the Houston ISD and several school officials violated federal anti-discrimination laws with respect to a student who claims she...
