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United States Supreme Court Will Not Hear Transgender Discrimination Case

The United States Supreme Court declined to hear the transgender rights issues in Gloucester County School Board of Education v. Grimm, thereby allowing the lower court decisions protecting a transgender student’s right to choose a bathroom facility based on their gender identity to stand. The American Civil Liberties Union argued on behalf of Grimm that […]

Snow Covered Parking Lot Does Not Create Liability

In the case of Hensel v. Siegfried Ents., Inc., 2021-Ohio-2137, the Sixth District Court of Appeals held that a fast-food restaurant was not liable for a customer’s alleged injury suffered after a fall in the ice and snow-covered parking lot. Here, the customer argued that an exception to the “no duty winter rule” existed because […]

Grand Jury Testimony Immune from Production

In the case of Daher v. Cuyahoga Community College Dist., 2021-Ohio-2103, the Eighth District Court of Appeals held that statements made to a grand jury are subject to absolute immunity and that immunity prevents the testimony from being used as evidence in a civil action. Here, an individual filed a civil action against several parties […]

Student’s Off-Campus Conduct Protected by the First Amendment

In the case of Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L., a minor, by and through her father, Levy, et al., Supreme Court Slip Opinion No 20-255, the United States Supreme Court held that off-campus student speech is protected by the First Amendment when it does not cause a substantial disruption at school. Here, a student […]

School Board May Not Authorize Employees to Carry Deadly Weapon

In the case of Gabbard v. Madison Local School Dist Bd. Of Edn., Slip Opinion No. 2021-Ohio-2067, the Ohio Supreme Court held that a school board authorizing school district employees to carry a deadly weapon does not comply with Ohio law. Here, parents of students enrolled in the school district argued that the adopted resolution […]