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Ruling: A judge should have dismissed a discrimination/wrongful termination lawsuit a fired charter teacher filed against the charter and up to 25 unnamed co-defendants.
Ruling: Although an ex-ISD employee can continue litigating his claim that he was improperly denied extra “premium pay” for working in-person during the COVID pandemic, his various other claims are dismissed.
Appeals Court: A jury — not a judge — may have to decide the outcome of the religious discrimination/retaliation lawsuit an ex-Harmony charter employee filed against the charter.
Fifth Circuit: A teacher can continue pursuing a portion of her federal lawsuit claiming her principal violated her rights in banning staff from participating in a before-school prayer event because students might be present.
U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals: An ISD is not federally liable over claims that district personnel did not do enough to stop an elementary student from sexually harassing another student.
Ruling: An ISD’s board violated state education law by not holding a hearing on an ex-employee’s grievance.
Fifth Circuit: Ex-special-ed administrator lacks constitutional protections against being retaliated against for reporting, to his principal, that teachers had mistreated special-ed students, and for cooperating with a CPS investigation.
Ruling: An ISD can’t block an ex-administrator’s lawsuit against the district from moving forward at the trial court level.
Accused teacher who helped leak confidential info about his student accuser loses education commissioner appeal.
U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of AppealsRuling: A charter district properly fired an employee — who…
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