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The Missouri Supreme Court made headlines on Feb. 26 with a ruling that allows a case to proceed for a transgender teen who sued to obtain access to school restrooms that align with his gender identity.

Where a transgender student sued a school district and its board arguing that the denial of access to the boys’ restrooms and locker room was discrimination on the grounds of his sex in the use of a public accommodation, the ...

You have to feel for school administrators these days. The Internet has made it infinitely harder for them to keep the peace within the student population, and there’s no clear road map as to how proactive they can be in ...

Wilkins v. Wilkins (MLW No. 59997/Case No. ED92092 – 9 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Cohen, J.) Where a college student attending a vocational school took a 10-week break, which was the length of the school’s terms, and ...

John Tinker, left, and Dan Johnston, standing right, talk to UMKC law students on Tuesday evening. Tinker was the plaintiff, and Johnston his lawyer, in one of the major student civil rights cases of the 20th century, Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, decided in 1969.

A convicted sex offender argued this morning before the Missouri Supreme Court that his client should be able to move into an O’Fallon residence situated near a day care center. At issue is a 2004 law that banned convicted sex ...

The St. Louis Public School District is facing a lawsuit over its refusal to sell vacant school building to charter schools. The lawsuit was filed this morning in the U.S. District Court in St. Louis by Rex Sinquefield and W. ...

Earlier this year, to much hoopla, the village board of East Rochester, N.Y., took a stand against sex offenders. To “protect the health, safety and well-being of the children” of East Rochester, the board decided to regulate “the movement of ...

You be the judge: School officials strip search Savanna, a 13-year-old girl, believing she possesses prescription-strength ibuprofen in violation of the school’s zero tolerance policy on drugs. Officials’ only evidence is the uncorroborated accusation of a classmate who was caught ...

A day late, Gov. Matt Blunt has weighed in on the state Supreme Court’s decision upholding the takeover of the St. Louis public schools. Blunt hailed the decision and said the administrative board is working to improve education for city ...