Dec 21, 2017 | News, School Law
December 21, 2017 Last Friday afternoon, a northern Indiana federal district court entered summary judgment in favor of a school corporation and two high school administrators involving a teacher sexual misconduct case. In Doe v. Tippecanoe School Corp., a mother...Dec 7, 2017 | News, School Law
December 7, 2017 Yesterday, the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, whose jurisdiction includes Indiana, upheld a district court’s decision allowing certain teachers to retain seniority tenure rights. In Elliott v. Madison Consolidated Schools, the appellate court...Aug 10, 2017 | News, School Law
August 8, 2017 Last week, the federal district court for southern Indiana entered a preliminary injunction prohibiting Pike Township Schools from assessing a facilities use fee to the Child Evangelism Fellowship to hold Good News Club meetings in classrooms after...Aug 1, 2017 | News, School Law
August 1, 2017 Last Friday, a divided Indiana Court of Appeals decided that a former school employee could be prosecuted for child seduction although the physical relationship with the student did not begin until several months following the employee’s resignation. In...May 31, 2017 | News, School Law
May 31, 2017 Yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, whose territory includes Indiana, held that a public school requiring a transgender student to use the restroom assigned to the student’s biological sex violated both Title IX and the...Aug 28, 2015 | School Law
August 4, 2015 In Indiana, attending the public school of one’s choice is as easy as it has ever been. However, there are still many issues and requirements for parents and students alike to consider. Tim Shelly, a partner with the Elkhart-based law firm Warrick &...